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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what area does Wollstonecraft concede men's superiority?
(a) Understanding Scriptures.
(b) Conversational skills.
(c) Reason.
(d) Physical strength.

2. In what state are women kept?
(a) Innocence.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Grace.

3. What is the only thing women are taught to be proud of?
(a) Their beauty.
(b) Their communities.
(c) Their children.
(d) Their husbands.

4. Over whom doesWollstonecraft want women to have power?
(a) Society.
(b) Men.
(c) Other women.
(d) Themselves.

5. How does Wollstonecraft think boys and girls should play?
(a) Separately.
(b) Within specific age groups.
(c) Quietly.
(d) Together.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wollstonecraft think of the idea of a coquette as natural?

2. Why are the women whom Wollstonecraft knows miserable?

3. What has reason been mixed with over the course of mankind?

4. What would happen if women were treated like boys in terms of fear and emotional displays?

5. How are men improved?

(see the answer key)

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