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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 be married.
(c) They must have children.
(d) They must not be educated.

2. What are the only professions available to women?
(a) There are none worth mentioning.
(b) Menial professions.
(c) Frivolous professions.
(d) Nursing and education.

3. Which of the following is NOT a focus of women's education?
(a) Perfecting their beauty.
(b) Producing silly women.
(c) Trying to get married.
(d) Trade skills.

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. When does character formation occur?
(a) During adolescence.
(b) Early in childhood.
(c) At the onset of adulthood.
(d) The age range was not known during the 18th century.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only pursuit women are taught to have?

2. What parents are able to extort a great deal of respect from their children?

3. How do men attain regal status?

4. What does modesty need to be distinguished from, according to Wollstonecraft?

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

(see the answer key)

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