View a FREE sample

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 sophisticated.
(b) The poor.
(c) The rich.
(d) The uneducated.

2. What profession is “incompatible with freedom?”
(a) Any kind of office job.
(b) A standing army.
(c) Royalty.
(d) Beggar.

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

4. What clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Love.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Faith.

5. What does a man who exercises absolute power lose?
(a) His reputation.
(b) His family.
(c) His humanity.
(d) His faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Wollstonecraft, what would fulfill a woman's life task?

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

3. What is important to manners?

4. Wollstonecraft hopes that _____________will forgive her.

5. What is the only thing women are taught to be proud of?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 160 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample