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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a focus of women's education?
(a) Trade skills.
(b) Perfecting their beauty.
(c) Producing silly women.
(d) Trying to get married.

2. What does Wollstonecraft say is inferior to virtue?
(a) Reason.
(b) Elegance.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Intellect.

3. According to Wollstonecraft, to what might the questions she asks lead?
(a) Crises of faith.
(b) Truths.
(c) Divorce.
(d) More questions.

4. What does Wollstonecraft say “warps the understanding” and thwarts civilization's progress?
(a) Men.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Education.
(d) Faith.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is important to manners?

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

4. What type of women delight in using whatever small power they have?

5. What causes error and evil?

(see the answer key)

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