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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What usually happens to any amount of power a woman gets?
(a) It is an illusion.
(b) It grows.
(c) It is taken away.
(d) It fades away.

2. To whom does Rousseau's argument about virtue apply?
(a) Children.
(b) Men.
(c) The rich.
(d) Women.

3. What does Wollstonecraft call for to reform women's manners?
(a) A revolution.
(b) A reform of education.
(c) Understanding from men.
(d) Finishing schools.

4. To what does Wollstonecraft compare women's education?
(a) Military men.
(b) The flight of a butterfly.
(c) A dance.
(d) The rich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession is “incompatible with freedom?”

2. How does Wollstonecraft think boys and girls should play?

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

4. In what state are women kept?

5. What do kings naturally desire?

(see the answer key)

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