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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect do men and circumstances have on women, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Weakness.
(b) Enslavement.
(c) Education.
(d) Strength.

2. What other genre of writing by Dr. Fordyce is popular, according to Chapter 5?
(a) Essays.
(b) Novels.
(c) Sermons.
(d) Speeches.

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

4. What does Wollstonecraft want women to acquire?
(a) Power.
(b) Money.
(c) Strength.
(d) Faith.

5. What practice reinforces women's inferiority and goes against nature?
(a) Remaining single.
(b) Women in business.
(c) Women forced to remain at home.
(d) Polygamy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the only thing women are taught to be proud of?

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

4. How does Wollstonecraft try to address women, according to the Introduction?

5. What kind of women does society speak out against?

(see the answer key)

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