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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who begins to have an influence on the child after the mother has weaned the boy?
(a) The tutor.
(b) The nanny.
(c) The siblings.
(d) God.

2. How was Rousseau rewarded for writing "Emile"?
(a) With money and reputation.
(b) With entitlements and privileges.
(c) With land and secured income.
(d) With public holidays.

3. When does Rousseau say manhood begins?
(a) At 18.
(b) At 21.
(c) At 16.
(d) At 25.

4. What is Rousseau's focus in Chapter 1, Book 3?
(a) Knowledge and ignorance.
(b) Weakness and strength.
(c) Truth and falsehood.
(d) Innocence and experience.

5. What kind of strength does Rousseau say adolescents attain?
(a) Moral.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Physical.

6. What does Rousseau say he wants Emile to learn?
(a) Discipline.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Philosophy.

7. What distinction does epistemology seek to make?
(a) Between what is eternal and what is particular.
(b) Between what is material and what is spirit.
(c) Between what is true and what is false.
(d) Between what is real and what is imaginative.

8. In what sense does Rousseau say that children have strength?
(a) They are strong because they have not been exposed to evil yet.
(b) They are strong because they can understand tough concepts.
(c) They are strong because they do not have self-doubts.
(d) They are strong when they are compared with other children.

9. What kind of opinions does Rousseau seem to hold, as he talks about book learning?
(a) Reverential.
(b) Skeptical.
(c) Devotional.
(d) Anti-intellectual.

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

11. From what does Rousseau want to protect children?
(a) Fear of failure.
(b) Fear of hurt.
(c) Fear of embarrassment.
(d) Fear of Hell.

12. What does Rousseau recommend for children, along with physical activity?
(a) Complete freedom.
(b) Stern discipline.
(c) Restrictive diet.
(d) Fresh air.

13. Rousseau contrasts book learning with what kind of learning?
(a) Hands-on learning.
(b) Learning from watching.
(c) Learning from dictation.
(d) Learning from competition.

14. What trait is needed in tutors who are trying to win a student's submission?
(a) Cleverness.
(b) Deceitfulness.
(c) Earnestness.
(d) Love of virtue.

15. What was the official perception of "Emile"?
(a) Rousseau was committing treason.
(b) Rousseau was encouraging readers to break the law.
(c) Rousseau was challenging common sense.
(d) Rousseau was being disobedient to the rulers of France.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is most relevant in deciding how or whether to punish a child?

3. Where does Rousseau say self-love is rooted?

4. How does Rousseau suggest we see childhood?

5. What does Rousseau say a man should have learned in his first 25 years?

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