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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In what state are women kept?
(a) Grace.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Slavery.
2. How do women react to what they see and hear?
(a) They react in the way their husbands or fathers instruct them to.
(b) They do not initially react.
(c) They react in a way that takes advantage of the situation to their benefits.
(d) Associations call up emotions.
3. What is the source of reason?
(a) Education.
(b) The Creator.
(c) Society.
(d) Relationships.
4. To whom does Rousseau's argument about virtue apply?
(a) Children.
(b) Men.
(c) Women.
(d) The rich.
5. What does Wollstonecraft think of the idea of a coquette as natural?
(a) She thinks it has its merits.
(b) She feels the need to do more research before making a claim.
(c) She thinks it will change.
(d) She thinks it is absurd.
6. What women are too weak and artificial for the author to address in her work?
(a) Poor women.
(b) Mothers.
(c) Women of the Church.
(d) Rich women.
7. Why does Rousseau think religion should be taken away from woman?
(a) All she needs to know about religion is that God's will states she is inferior.
(b) A man should explain it to her.
(c) Religious freedom may lead her to want additional liberties.
(d) All she needs to know is taught to her in childhood.
8. What do most women rely on instead of education?
(a) Their fathers.
(b) Their beauty.
(c) Their faith.
(d) Their skills.
9. What type of women delight in using whatever small power they have?
(a) The sophisticated.
(b) The poor.
(c) The uneducated.
(d) The rich.
10. What do women shy away from when it comes to men?
(a) Their parents' advice.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Physical appearance.
11. How do love and arbitrary passion reign?
(a) By faith.
(b) By intuition.
(c) By their own authority.
(d) By reason.
12. What should men and women attain in the same way?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Relationships.
(c) Strength.
(d) Education.
13. Why does Rousseau think girls should have as little liberty as possible?
(a) They do not have the intellect to understand liberty.
(b) They will indulge it.
(c) They have nothing to do that requires it.
(d) It is ordained this way by God.
14. Whose letters does Wollstonecraft address at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Lord Chesterfield's.
(b) Bishop Arden's.
(c) Mrs. Macauley's.
(d) Rousseau's.
15. Which women in society have the most virtue, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Mothers.
(b) Poor women.
(c) Rich women.
(d) Educated women.
Short Answer Questions
1. What clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?
2. Which of the following is NOT a focus of women's education?
3. What causes women to be either fine ladies or effective housewives?
4. What should passion subside into in order for a couple to be happy?
5. Which women have less morality than primitive women?
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