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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. How are women like the rich?
(a) Both are kept from society.
(b) Both are misunderstood.
(c) Both exploit others.
(d) Both are born with a set of privileges.

2. What other genre of writing by Dr. Fordyce is popular, according to Chapter 5?
(a) Sermons.
(b) Essays.
(c) Novels.
(d) Speeches.

3. What happens when women are prevented from having experiences and endeavors?
(a) They become immoral.
(b) Virtues do not form.
(c) They become hermits.
(d) They lose their free will.

4. What is the true foundation for morality?
(a) Parenthood.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Reason.
(d) God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of women delight in using whatever small power they have?

2. How should education be supplemented?

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

4. What does a man who exercises absolute power lose?

5. What does Wollstonecraft think of the idea of a coquette as natural?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Wollstonecraft's objection to the character of Sophia in Rousseau's Emilie.

2. Why does Wollstonecraft not blame women for falling for a rake?

3. What kind of education do women have, according to the Introduction? What kind of women does this produce?

4. Why do “rakes” find it easy to appeal to women?

5. What irony does Wollstonecraft present in Chapter 2 in men's view of women? What kind of irony is this?

6. What does Wollstonecraft say about women's first impressions in Chapter 6?

7. What justification do men use for the inferiority of women that Wollstonecraft compares to tyrannical rulers?

8. What does Wollstonecraft say she is pessimistic about in the Introduction? What effect does she see as a result?

9. What argument does Wollstonecraft give at the beginning of Chapter 2 to justify women's pursuit and attainment of virtue?

10. What does Wollstonecraft say about Rousseau's view of religion for women?

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