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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, Book 5 : Chapter 2, Sophy Cont..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What led to the priest's downfall as a priest?
(a) His admiration for 'the marital condition.'
(b) His longing for secular knowledge.
(c) His passion for cards.
(d) A disreputable woman.

2. Why does Rousseau say that children lack strength?
(a) Because they have not exercised enough.
(b) Because they have not been fed well.
(c) Because they are compared with adults.
(d) Because they have been subjected to book learning.

3. What does the field of epistemology concern itself with?
(a) The realities behind the appearances we can see and measure.
(b) The study of correspondence.
(c) The ideal forms behind the reality we experience.
(d) How we know what we know.

4. What does Rousseau say is the purpose of education?
(a) Giving children a sense of their innate damnation.
(b) Giving children a sense of their own innate divinity.
(c) Giving children a sense of their limitations.
(d) Giving children a sense of their potential.

5. How does Rousseau suggest telling students about where babies come from?
(a) Say that they come from woman's body, with difficulty for the woman.
(b) Say that they come from God.
(c) Say that they come from a stork, or another mythic beast.
(d) Say that they come from the fertilization of an egg by a man's sperm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau want Emile to respect in the relationship between men and women?

2. What does Rousseau say Emile can say at the end of each day?

3. What field did the priest explore after leaving the church?

4. What kind of approach does Rousseau advocate for parents when their children are hurt?

5. What kind of feeling does Rousseau want to create in Emile with regard to Sophy?

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