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

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

3. What do most women rely on instead of education?
(a) Their beauty.
(b) Their fathers.
(c) Their faith.
(d) Their skills.

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

5. According to Wollstonecraft, what would fulfill a woman's life task?
(a) Getting married.
(b) Giving birth.
(c) Finding a profession.
(d) Instilling virtues in her children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who complains about the silliness of women?

2. Whose letters does Wollstonecraft address at the end of Chapter 5?

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

4. How are men improved?

5. What is important to manners?

(see the answer key)

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