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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wollstonecraft say is inferior to virtue?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Reason.
(c) Intellect.
(d) Elegance.

2. In what area does Wollstonecraft concede men's superiority?
(a) Reason.
(b) Understanding Scriptures.
(c) Physical strength.
(d) Conversational skills.

3. Who argues that man is a solitary animal?
(a) Dr. Gregory.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Milton.

4. How should education be supplemented?
(a) With public debate.
(b) With faith.
(c) With individual study.
(d) With society in which people live.

5. What is the only pursuit women are taught to have?
(a) Motherhood.
(b) The attainment of beauty.
(c) They are not taught any pursuit.
(d) The arts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most women rely on instead of education?

2. What women are too weak and artificial for the author to address in her work?

3. To whom does Rousseau's argument about virtue apply?

4. What type of people ignores their health in pursuit of their calling?

5. What do kings naturally desire?

(see the answer key)

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