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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can be harmful to the growth of parental affection, according to Chapter 10?
(a) Live-in servants.
(b) Governesses
(c) The use of a nurse.
(d) Boarding school.

2. Who has written instructional books that treat women as subordinate?
(a) Men.
(b) Women.
(c) Church authorities.
(d) Royalty.

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

4. What causes women to become selfish, according to the fourth section of Chapter 13?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Over-fondness of dress.
(d) Children.

5. What makes Rousseau think women should be weaker and more passive than men?
(a) Evidence from the Bible.
(b) Their physical inferiority.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Their lack of motivation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where must virtuous beings derive their virtue?

2. When it comes to relationships between men and women, who will always have the advantage?

3. What reason is there to obey a parent only because they are a parent?

4. What does Wollstonecraft say about humble men?

5. What does Wollstonecraft say offers a great advantage in forming women's characters?

(see the answer key)

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