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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the true foundation for morality?
(a) Reason.
(b) Parenthood.
(c) Marriage.
(d) God.
2. What is the source of reason?
(a) The Creator.
(b) Society.
(c) Relationships.
(d) Education.
3. What forms, to some degree, man's character?
(a) His faith.
(b) His outward appearance.
(c) His profession.
(d) His family.
4. Why are the women whom Wollstonecraft knows miserable?
(a) Their husbands are all away at war.
(b) They are forced to work outside their homes.
(c) Their educations have been neglected.
(d) Their marriages were arranged.
5. What women are too weak and artificial for the author to address in her work?
(a) Women of the Church.
(b) Rich women.
(c) Poor women.
(d) Mothers.
6. How are women like the rich?
(a) Both are born with a set of privileges.
(b) Both are misunderstood.
(c) Both exploit others.
(d) Both are kept from society.
7. Why does Rousseau think religion should be taken away from woman?
(a) A man should explain it to her.
(b) Religious freedom may lead her to want additional liberties.
(c) All she needs to know is taught to her in childhood.
(d) All she needs to know about religion is that God's will states she is inferior.
8. Who is the first author Wollstonecraft addresses in Chapter 5?
(a) Jasper Forde.
(b) John Locke.
(c) Dr. Gregory.
(d) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
9. What kind of women does society speak out against?
(a) Masculine women.
(b) Women who choose not to marry.
(c) Women who work outside their homes.
(d) Feminine women.
10. What causes women to be either fine ladies or effective housewives?
(a) Education.
(b) Faith.
(c) Influence from their husbands.
(d) Influence from their parents.
11. Where must virtuous beings derive their virtue?
(a) Families.
(b) Communities.
(c) God.
(d) Reason.
12. In what state are women kept?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Grace.
(d) Solitude.
13. What is the name of the character from Emilie Wollstonecraft criticizes in Chapter 5?
(a) Lilly.
(b) Sophia.
(c) Rene.
(d) Nicole.
14. What does Wollstonecraft say about love?
(a) It fades.
(b) It grows.
(c) It carries too much weight in society.
(d) It is the driving force in society.
15. What should woman be willing to sacrifice in order to be agreeable to man?
(a) Her life.
(b) Her family.
(c) Every bodily comfort.
(d) All of her possessions.
Short Answer Questions
1. What profession is “incompatible with freedom?”
2. Who argues that man is a solitary animal?
3. To what does Wollstonecraft compare women's education?
4. Which of Rousseau's characters does Wollstonecraft criticize?
5. How do women react to what they see and hear?
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