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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Rousseau think girls should have as little liberty as possible?
(a) They do not have the intellect to understand liberty.
(b) It is ordained this way by God.
(c) They will indulge it.
(d) They have nothing to do that requires it.

2. How do Rousseau and Dr. Gregory make women appear?
(a) Faithful.
(b) Educated.
(c) Strong.
(d) Weak.

3. What does a man who exercises absolute power lose?
(a) His faith.
(b) His reputation.
(c) His humanity.
(d) His family.

4. Why are the women whom Wollstonecraft knows miserable?
(a) Their husbands are all away at war.
(b) Their marriages were arranged.
(c) They are forced to work outside their homes.
(d) Their educations have been neglected.

5. What do most women rely on instead of education?
(a) Their fathers.
(b) Their skills.
(c) Their beauty.
(d) Their faith.

6. What kind of men easily appeal to women?
(a) Military men.
(b) Uneducated men.
(c) Rakish men.
(d) Meek men.

7. What clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Love.
(d) Faith.

8. What gives man preeminence over creatures?
(a) Faith.
(b) Tools.
(c) Strength.
(d) Reason.

9. What causes women to be either fine ladies or effective housewives?
(a) Education.
(b) Influence from their husbands.
(c) Faith.
(d) Influence from their parents.

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

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

12. How do love and arbitrary passion reign?
(a) By faith.
(b) By their own authority.
(c) By reason.
(d) By intuition.

13. Why does Rousseau think religion should be taken away from woman?
(a) Religious freedom may lead her to want additional liberties.
(b) All she needs to know about religion is that God's will states she is inferior.
(c) A man should explain it to her.
(d) All she needs to know is taught to her in childhood.

14. What would happen if women were treated like boys in terms of fear and emotional displays?
(a) They would be more respectable.
(b) They would be leaders.
(c) Men would be at home taking care of the children.
(d) Society would be more balanced.

15. How do women react to what they see and hear?
(a) They react in the way their husbands or fathers instruct them to.
(b) Associations call up emotions.
(c) They react in a way that takes advantage of the situation to their benefits.
(d) They do not initially react.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is important to manners?

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

3. What is the title of the work by Dr. Gregory Wollstonecraft that he addresses in Chapter 5?

4. According to Wollstonecraft, to what might the questions she asks lead?

5. Where must virtuous beings derive their virtue?

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