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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wollstonecraft say about love?
(a) It grows.
(b) It is the driving force in society.
(c) It carries too much weight in society.
(d) It fades.

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

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

4. Who argues that man is a solitary animal?
(a) Milton.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Dr. Gregory.
(d) Descartes.

5. Why do women's opinions waver?
(a) They listen to men's opinions.
(b) They seek to please others above all else.
(c) They have contradictory emotions.
(d) They waver with the acquisition of knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is important to manners?

2. How are women like the rich?

3. Whose children's books does Wollstonecraft address in Chapter 5?

4. What forms, to some degree, man's character?

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

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