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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 are born with a set of privileges.
(d) Both exploit others.

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

3. What is the only thing women are taught to be proud of?
(a) Their beauty.
(b) Their husbands.
(c) Their communities.
(d) Their children.

4. What kind of men easily appeal to women?
(a) Rakish men.
(b) Uneducated men.
(c) Meek men.
(d) Military men.

5. 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) They would be more respectable.
(d) Men would be at home taking care of the children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first author Wollstonecraft addresses in Chapter 5?

2. What happens when women are prevented from having experiences and endeavors?

3. In what area does Wollstonecraft concede men's superiority?

4. What does woman's inferior strength keep them from attaining?

5. How does Wollstonecraft think boys and girls should play?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was clouded reason? What led to reason being clouded?

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

5. What does Wollstonecraft say about love in Chapter 4? What does she say is better than love?

6. How do instructional books written by men treat women?

7. What does Wollstonecraft say about allowing boys and girls to play together?

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

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

10. What does Jean-Jacques Rousseau argue about the nature of man?

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