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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason is there to obey a parent only because they are a parent?
(a) There is no reason.
(b) In order to submit to society's norms.
(c) In order to have financial support.
(d) Out of a sense of duty.

2. What does Wollstonecraft doubt about chastity?
(a) That it is a virtue unto itself.
(b) That there is anything more than chastity.
(c) That anyone is ever truly chaste.
(d) That it actually produces modesty.

3. Why are the women whom Wollstonecraft knows miserable?
(a) Their marriages were arranged.
(b) Their educations have been neglected.
(c) They are forced to work outside their homes.
(d) Their husbands are all away at war.

4. What causes women to be either fine ladies or effective housewives?
(a) Education.
(b) Influence from their parents.
(c) Faith.
(d) Influence from their husbands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the work by Dr. Gregory Wollstonecraft that he addresses in Chapter 5?

2. What type of women delight in using whatever small power they have?

3. When does character formation occur?

4. Why does Rousseau think girls should have as little liberty as possible?

5. What takes the place of woman's senses as her character is formed?

(see the answer key)

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