View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what kind of learning are women ridiculed?
(a) Associative learning.
(b) Rote learning.
(c) Relational learning.
(d) Investigative learning.

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

3. What does Wollstonecraft think of women being closed up in convents and boarding schools?
(a) She sees the benefits, but it is risky.
(b) She objects.
(c) She supports it.
(d) Policies need to be reformed.

4. To where are women confined, according to Chapter 9?
(a) The church and the home.
(b) Their private sphere.
(c) Their town.
(d) Their minds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Women are slaves to _______________.

2. What does Wollstonecraft say “warps the understanding” and thwarts civilization's progress?

3. What other genre of writing by Dr. Fordyce is popular, according to Chapter 5?

4. What can happen if a woman loves her children only out of a sense of duty or because they are her own children?

5. What is woman's only duty to fulfill?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 217 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample