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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wollstonecraft say is inferior to virtue?
(a) Elegance.
(b) Intellect.
(c) Reason.
(d) Marriage.

2. What type of women delight in using whatever small power they have?
(a) The uneducated.
(b) The poor.
(c) The rich.
(d) The sophisticated.

3. Who is the first author Wollstonecraft addresses in Chapter 5?
(a) Jasper Forde.
(b) John Locke.
(c) Dr. Gregory.
(d) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

4. Why does Wollstonecraft not want to address every author who subjugates women?
(a) She will repeat herself too much.
(b) They will not understand her objections.
(c) It will take too long.
(d) She has already addressed all of them.

5. In Chapter 6, what does Wollstonecraft say is the only thing that can bring independence and freedom?
(a) Faith.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Reason.
(d) Virtue.

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

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

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

9. Which of Rousseau's characters does Wollstonecraft criticize?
(a) Nicole.
(b) Lillie.
(c) Emilie.
(d) Sophia.

10. What usually happens to any amount of power a woman gets?
(a) It is an illusion.
(b) It fades away.
(c) It grows.
(d) It is taken away.

11. How are women like the rich?
(a) Both are misunderstood.
(b) Both exploit others.
(c) Both are kept from society.
(d) Both are born with a set of privileges.

12. According to Wollstonecraft, to what might the questions she asks lead?
(a) Crises of faith.
(b) More questions.
(c) Truths.
(d) Divorce.

13. In what area does Wollstonecraft concede men's superiority?
(a) Reason.
(b) Understanding Scriptures.
(c) Conversational skills.
(d) Physical strength.

14. What does Wollstonecraft say about love?
(a) It is the driving force in society.
(b) It fades.
(c) It carries too much weight in society.
(d) It grows.

15. Whose children's books does Wollstonecraft address in Chapter 5?
(a) Mrs. Piozzi's.
(b) Madame Genlis's.
(c) Mrs. Chapone's.
(d) The Baroness de Stael's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what situation does Dr. Gregory tell women not to cultivate their minds?

2. What should men and women attain in the same way?

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

4. Over whom doesWollstonecraft want women to have power?

5. What does Wollstonecraft think of the idea of a coquette as natural?

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