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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Chapter 6, what has a determinate effect on women's characters?
(a) Early associations and ideas.
(b) Formal education.
(c) Husband.
(d) Religious upbringing.

4. From where must a parent work in order to gain the correct type of affection from a child, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) The heart.
(b) The rod.
(c) Society.
(d) The mind.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does woman's inferior strength keep them from attaining?

2. What is important to manners?

3. When does character formation occur?

4. What kind of governing can parents tend to, according to Chapter 10?

5. What women are too weak and artificial for the author to address in her work?

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