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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what situation does Dr. Gregory tell women not to cultivate their minds?
(a) If they are nobility.
(b) If they have children.
(c) If they intend to marry.
(d) If they must work outside the home.

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

3. How are women like the rich?
(a) Both exploit others.
(b) Both are born with a set of privileges.
(c) Both are kept from society.
(d) Both are misunderstood.

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

5. Wollstonecraft hopes that _____________will forgive her.
(a) Men.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Women.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the business of a woman's life?

2. Which women in society have the most virtue, according to Wollstonecraft?

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

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

5. What does Wollstonecraft say about love?

(see the answer key)

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