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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, Book 5 : Chapter 3, Emile Grows More Mature.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What benefit does Rousseau say can come from reading books?
(a) Great learning.
(b) Intimacy with the divine.
(c) Wealth and status.
(d) Broad experience.

2. What does Rousseau say an adolescent's new powers and experiences cause him or her to do?
(a) Submit to authorities.
(b) Speak with new authority.
(c) Chafe against constraints.
(d) Discover new laws.

3. What kinds of skills does Rousseau say Sophy should have as a young woman?
(a) Skills she will no longer need as a wife.
(b) Skills that will become talents in time.
(c) Diplomatic skills.
(d) Skills that will be useful when she is a mother.

4. What trade did Rousseau apprentice in?
(a) Blacksmithing.
(b) Engraving.
(c) Painting.
(d) Teaching.

5. What observation does Rousseau make about the world in the beginning of Book 4 Chapter 1?
(a) How much knowledge there is to acquire.
(b) How much potential there is in man.
(c) How much sorrow there is in the world.
(d) How much money there is to be made.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that allows an adolescent to exceed his limits?

2. Where did the priest find that philosophers were exceptional?

3. Who is at greatest risk in the courtship of Emile and Sophy?

4. Why does Sophy fend Emile off during their courtship?

5. How does Rousseau change his stance about marriage as Book 4, Chapter 3 goes on?

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