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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Wollstonecraft say God intended mankind to live after the Fall?
(a) As polygamists.
(b) In individual family units.
(c) In communities.
(d) In solitude.

3. Which women in society have the most virtue, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Educated women.
(b) Mothers.
(c) Poor women.
(d) Rich women.

4. What does Wollstonecraft say about modest men?
(a) They are presumptuous.
(b) They are steady.
(c) They are timid.
(d) They are passionate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wollstonecraft say “warps the understanding” and thwarts civilization's progress?

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

3. What gives man preeminence over creatures?

4. What do kings naturally desire?

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

(see the answer key)

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