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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why are the women whom Wollstonecraft knows miserable?
(a) Their educations have been neglected.
(b) They are forced to work outside their homes.
(c) Their marriages were arranged.
(d) Their husbands are all away at war.

3. How does Wollstonecraft say God intended mankind to live after the Fall?
(a) In communities.
(b) In solitude.
(c) As polygamists.
(d) In individual family units.

4. Why does Rousseau think religion should be taken away from woman?
(a) A man should explain it to her.
(b) All she needs to know about religion is that God's will states she is inferior.
(c) Religious freedom may lead her to want additional liberties.
(d) All she needs to know is taught to her in childhood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What women are too weak and artificial for the author to address in her work?

2. What do kings naturally desire?

3. What gives man preeminence over creatures?

4. Which of Rousseau's characters does Wollstonecraft criticize?

5. Which women have less morality than primitive women?

(see the answer key)

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