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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of women does society speak out against?
(a) Women who work outside their homes.
(b) Masculine women.
(c) Women who choose not to marry.
(d) Feminine women.

3. What causes error and evil?
(a) Free will.
(b) Poor education.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

4. What should woman be willing to sacrifice in order to be agreeable to man?
(a) Her life.
(b) Every bodily comfort.
(c) Her family.
(d) All of her possessions.

5. From where does true beauty arise, according to Chapter 6?
(a) Companionship.
(b) Understanding.
(c) The heart.
(d) The mind.

6. To what does Wollstonecraft compare women's education?
(a) The flight of a butterfly.
(b) The rich.
(c) Military men.
(d) A dance.

7. What is the source of reason?
(a) Society.
(b) Relationships.
(c) The Creator.
(d) Education.

8. What forms, to some degree, man's character?
(a) His faith.
(b) His outward appearance.
(c) His family.
(d) His profession.

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

10. How are men improved?
(a) By virtue.
(b) By striving for reason.
(c) By women.
(d) By faith.

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

12. What does Wollstonecraft say “warps the understanding” and thwarts civilization's progress?
(a) Royalty.
(b) Education.
(c) Men.
(d) Faith.

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

14. What is the true foundation for morality?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Reason.
(c) God.
(d) Parenthood.

15. Where must virtuous beings derive their virtue?
(a) God.
(b) Families.
(c) Reason.
(d) Communities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when women are prevented from having experiences and endeavors?

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

3. How do love and arbitrary passion reign?

4. Why does Wollstonecraft not want to address every author who subjugates women?

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

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