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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Love.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Faith.
2. What causes women to be either fine ladies or effective housewives?
(a) Influence from their parents.
(b) Education.
(c) Faith.
(d) Influence from their husbands.
3. Where must virtuous beings derive their virtue?
(a) Communities.
(b) Reason.
(c) God.
(d) Families.
4. What usually happens to any amount of power a woman gets?
(a) It is taken away.
(b) It grows.
(c) It is an illusion.
(d) It fades away.
5. What does a man who exercises absolute power lose?
(a) His family.
(b) His humanity.
(c) His faith.
(d) His reputation.
6. According to Wollstonecraft, what would fulfill a woman's life task?
(a) Finding a profession.
(b) Giving birth.
(c) Getting married.
(d) Instilling virtues in her children.
7. From where does true beauty arise, according to Chapter 6?
(a) Understanding.
(b) The heart.
(c) The mind.
(d) Companionship.
8. To whom does Rousseau's argument about virtue apply?
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) The rich.
(d) Men.
9. How do men attain regal status?
(a) Faith.
(b) Reason.
(c) Crimes.
(d) Inheritance.
10. What does Wollstonecraft say about love?
(a) It grows.
(b) It is the driving force in society.
(c) It carries too much weight in society.
(d) It fades.
11. Women are slaves to _______________.
(a) Positive impressions.
(b) They are often neutral to impressions.
(c) Negative impressions.
(d) First impressions.
12. What do women shy away from when it comes to men?
(a) Physical appearance.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Their parents' advice.
(d) Emotion.
13. Wollstonecraft hopes that _____________will forgive her.
(a) Men.
(b) Women.
(c) Her husband.
(d) God.
14. What does reason have little sway over, according to Chapter 6?
(a) Quick associations.
(b) Spiritual experiences.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Prejudices.
15. What other genre of writing by Dr. Fordyce is popular, according to Chapter 5?
(a) Novels.
(b) Essays.
(c) Sermons.
(d) Speeches.
Short Answer Questions
1. What profession is “incompatible with freedom?”
2. What effect do men and circumstances have on women, according to Wollstonecraft?
3. What do kings naturally desire?
4. How are men improved?
5. What forms, to some degree, man's character?
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