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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is important to manners?
(a) Proper appearance.
(b) Individual education.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Relationships.

3. How should education be supplemented?
(a) With individual study.
(b) With public debate.
(c) With faith.
(d) With society in which people live.

4. How does Wollstonecraft try to address women, according to the Introduction?
(a) Plainly.
(b) As rational beings.
(c) With metaphors.
(d) On an emotional level.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What should men and women attain in the same way?

3. Which of the following is NOT a focus of women's education?

4. What does Wollstonecraft call for to reform women's manners?

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

(see the answer key)

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