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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wollstonecraft want women to acquire?
(a) Power.
(b) Strength.
(c) Faith.
(d) Money.

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

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

4. Who complains about the silliness of women?
(a) The poor.
(b) Men.
(c) The rich.
(d) Women.

5. What gives man preeminence over creatures?
(a) Strength.
(b) Tools.
(c) Reason.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What women are too weak and artificial for the author to address in her work?

4. According to Wollstonecraft, to what might the questions she asks lead?

5. How does Wollstonecraft say God intended mankind to live after the Fall?

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