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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does woman's inferior strength keep them from attaining?
(a) Education.
(b) Power.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Virtue.

2. Which women have less morality than primitive women?
(a) Rich.
(b) Civilized.
(c) Educated.
(d) Poor.

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

4. In what situation does Dr. Gregory tell women not to cultivate their minds?
(a) If they are nobility.
(b) If they have children.
(c) If they must work outside the home.
(d) If they intend to marry.

5. How do Rousseau and Dr. Gregory make women appear?
(a) Educated.
(b) Faithful.
(c) Strong.
(d) Weak.

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

7. Which of the following is NOT true of women's education, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) It is random.
(b) It is regimented.
(c) It is disorganized.
(d) It is fragmented.

8. What should passion subside into in order for a couple to be happy?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Trust.
(c) Respect.
(d) Tolerance.

9. How does Wollstonecraft try to address women, according to the Introduction?
(a) As rational beings.
(b) Plainly.
(c) On an emotional level.
(d) With metaphors.

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

11. What is the business of a woman's life?
(a) Education.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Motherhood.

12. Over whom doesWollstonecraft want women to have power?
(a) Other women.
(b) Men.
(c) Society.
(d) Themselves.

13. What would happen if women were treated like boys in terms of fear and emotional displays?
(a) They would be leaders.
(b) Society would be more balanced.
(c) Men would be at home taking care of the children.
(d) They would be more respectable.

14. What do most women rely on instead of education?
(a) Their faith.
(b) Their beauty.
(c) Their fathers.
(d) Their skills.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do women shy away from when it comes to men?

2. What does Wollstonecraft say offers a great advantage in forming women's characters?

3. According to Chapter 6, what has a determinate effect on women's characters?

4. For what kind of learning are women ridiculed?

5. Which of Rousseau's characters does Wollstonecraft criticize?

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