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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do many women not exercise, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Intellectual conversation.
(b) Their bodies.
(c) Their own minds.
(d) Restraint.

2. What has reason been mixed with over the course of mankind?
(a) Intuition.
(b) Error.
(c) Prejudice.
(d) Faith.

3. What does Wollstonecraft think should happen to men who ruin women?
(a) They should have to support them.
(b) They should have to work for them.
(c) They should have to pay them.
(d) They should have to marry them.

4. What gives man preeminence over creatures?
(a) Faith.
(b) Tools.
(c) Reason.
(d) Strength.

5. What does Wollstonecraft think of women being closed up in convents and boarding schools?
(a) Policies need to be reformed.
(b) She objects.
(c) She supports it.
(d) She sees the benefits, but it is risky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wollstonecraft call for to reform women's manners?

2. According to Wollstonecraft, to what might the questions she asks lead?

3. What does reason have little sway over, according to Chapter 6?

4. What is a woman’s first duty?

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

(see the answer key)

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