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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. What kind of women does society speak out against?
(a) Women who work outside their homes.
(b) Masculine women.
(c) Women who choose not to marry.
(d) Feminine women.

2. In what area does Wollstonecraft concede men's superiority?
(a) Reason.
(b) Physical strength.
(c) Conversational skills.
(d) Understanding Scriptures.

3. Whose letters does Wollstonecraft address at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Mrs. Macauley's.
(b) Bishop Arden's.
(c) Lord Chesterfield's.
(d) Rousseau's.

4. How do love and arbitrary passion reign?
(a) By reason.
(b) By their own authority.
(c) By intuition.
(d) By faith.

5. What author does Wollstonecraft speak the most highly of in Chapter 5?
(a) Mrs. Chapone.
(b) Mrs. Shelley.
(c) Mrs. Piozzi.
(d) Mrs. Macauley.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do women react to what they see and hear?

2. To whom does Rousseau's argument about virtue apply?

3. Who has written instructional books that treat women as subordinate?

4. What is the only thing women are taught to be proud of?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Wollstonecraft say about Rousseau's view of women's education?

6. How do men attain regal power? How do their subjects react?

7. How are women made weak, according to the beginning of Chapter 4?

8. How does Wollstonecraft compare women to the rich?

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

10. Explain what Wollstonecraft says about people of genius in Chapter 3.

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