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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a focus of women's education?
(a) Producing silly women.
(b) Trying to get married.
(c) Perfecting their beauty.
(d) Trade skills.

2. Why are the women whom Wollstonecraft knows miserable?
(a) Their educations have been neglected.
(b) Their husbands are all away at war.
(c) Their marriages were arranged.
(d) They are forced to work outside their homes.

3. Where must virtuous beings derive their virtue?
(a) Families.
(b) God.
(c) Communities.
(d) Reason.

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

5. What causes error and evil?
(a) Poor education.
(b) Free will.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Wollstonecraft try to address women, according to the Introduction?

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

4. What does Wollstonecraft say is inferior to virtue?

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

(see the answer key)

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