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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which women in society have the most virtue, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Educated women.
(b) Poor women.
(c) Rich women.
(d) Mothers.

2. What happens when women are prevented from having experiences and endeavors?
(a) They become immoral.
(b) Virtues do not form.
(c) They become hermits.
(d) They lose their free will.

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

4. According to Wollstonecraft, what would fulfill a woman's life task?
(a) Instilling virtues in her children.
(b) Finding a profession.
(c) Giving birth.
(d) Getting married.

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

6. What is important to manners?
(a) Proper appearance.
(b) Individual education.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Relationships.

7. What does reason have little sway over, according to Chapter 6?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Prejudices.
(c) Quick associations.
(d) Spiritual experiences.

8. What type of people ignores their health in pursuit of their calling?
(a) People of genius.
(b) Religious men and women.
(c) Mothers.
(d) The poor.

9. What should men and women attain in the same way?
(a) Education.
(b) Relationships.
(c) Strength.
(d) Virtue.

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

11. What does Wollstonecraft think of the idea of a coquette as natural?
(a) She thinks it has its merits.
(b) She thinks it will change.
(c) She feels the need to do more research before making a claim.
(d) She thinks it is absurd.

12. What do kings naturally desire?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Money.
(c) Flattery.
(d) Education.

13. How should education be supplemented?
(a) With faith.
(b) With individual study.
(c) With society in which people live.
(d) With public debate.

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

15. What effect do men and circumstances have on women, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Strength.
(b) Education.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Enslavement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over whom doesWollstonecraft want women to have power?

2. What practice reinforces women's inferiority and goes against nature?

3. How do love and arbitrary passion reign?

4. What clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?

5. Why do women's opinions waver?

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