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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of women delight in using whatever small power they have?
(a) The poor.
(b) The sophisticated.
(c) The uneducated.
(d) The rich.

2. What clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Faith.
(c) Prejudice.
(d) Love.

3. What profession is “incompatible with freedom?”
(a) A standing army.
(b) Any kind of office job.
(c) Beggar.
(d) Royalty.

4. According to Wollstonecraft, what would fulfill a woman's life task?
(a) Getting married.
(b) Finding a profession.
(c) Giving birth.
(d) Instilling virtues in her children.

5. Whose children's books does Wollstonecraft address in Chapter 5?
(a) Mrs. Chapone's.
(b) The Baroness de Stael's.
(c) Madame Genlis's.
(d) Mrs. Piozzi's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the source of reason?

2. Where must virtuous beings derive their virtue?

3. What does Rousseau say is required of girls for them to be thought beautiful?

4. How do men attain regal status?

5. Why does Rousseau think girls should have as little liberty as possible?

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