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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Wollstonecraft want to appeal?
(a) The lower class.
(b) The upper class.
(c) Men.
(d) The middle class.

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

3. What virtue does Wollstonecraft describe as a kind of self-abasement?
(a) Humility.
(b) Vanity.
(c) Faith.
(d) Reason.

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

5. How are the husbands of meek wives portrayed?
(a) As guides.
(b) As scarecrows.
(c) As wizards.
(d) As lions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most important aspect in attaining rank and class, according to Chapter 9?

2. How should education be supplemented?

3. How do love and arbitrary passion reign?

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

5. What does reason have little sway over, according to Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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