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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the ultimate goal of Rousseau's educational philosophy?
(a) A student who can observe the laws of the government and of the church.
(b) A student who can discern the difference between not knowing and ineffective grasps at knowledge.
(c) A student who can quote scripture for anything that happens, no matter how rare or unusual.
(d) A student who acts as a repository for facts and theories for the benefit of the society around him.

3. What was Rousseau's father's trade?
(a) Professor.
(b) Cooper.
(c) Blacksmith.
(d) Watch maker.

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

5. What does Rousseau say changes the effects of women on young men?
(a) Violent rages.
(b) Hormonal flushes.
(c) Love poetry.
(d) Existential despair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say is the trouble with being attractive to women?

2. What advice does Rousseau give to mothers?

3. What change does a man experience at his second birth?

4. What is the customary view of children, according to Rousseau?

5. What does Rousseau contrast with the active lifestyle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of strength does Rousseau want to engender in a child?

2. Why does Rousseau propose a "moderate approach" in responding to a child's injuries?

3. How does Rousseau describe man's second birth?

4. How does Rousseau say a child can be managed without interest?

5. How does Rousseau distinguish between self-love and selfishness?

6. What does Rousseau say about the first 25 years of life?

7. Why does Rousseau say that it is vital, when relating to a child, to be responsive while yet retaining authority?

8. What advice does Rousseau give mothers?

9. What does Rousseau say are the dangers of libertinism?

10. What is epistemology and how did it affect Rousseau's "Emile"?

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