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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of women delight in using whatever small power they have?
(a) The rich.
(b) The uneducated.
(c) The poor.
(d) The sophisticated.

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

3. How do men attain regal status?
(a) Inheritance.
(b) Reason.
(c) Faith.
(d) Crimes.

4. Who argues that man is a solitary animal?
(a) Dr. Gregory.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Milton.
(d) Descartes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most women rely on instead of education?

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. What does a man who exercises absolute power lose?

5. What clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?

(see the answer key)

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