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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose letters does Wollstonecraft address at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Mrs. Macauley's.
(b) Bishop Arden's.
(c) Rousseau's.
(d) Lord Chesterfield's.

2. What virtue does Wollstonecraft describe as a kind of self-abasement?
(a) Reason.
(b) Faith.
(c) Humility.
(d) Vanity.

3. To what does Wollstonecraft compare women's education?
(a) A dance.
(b) Military men.
(c) The rich.
(d) The flight of a butterfly.

4. What does Rousseau say is required of girls for them to be thought beautiful?
(a) They must be kept under constant and severe restraint in their bodies and minds.
(b) They must have children.
(c) They must be married.
(d) They must not be educated.

5. To whom does Rousseau's argument about virtue apply?
(a) Children.
(b) Men.
(c) Women.
(d) The rich.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wollstonecraft think should happen to men who ruin women?

2. What does Wollstonecraft call for to reform women's manners?

3. What is the name of the character from Emilie Wollstonecraft criticizes in Chapter 5?

4. What should passion subside into in order for a couple to be happy?

5. In what area does Wollstonecraft concede men's superiority?

(see the answer key)

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