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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Wollstonecraft want to appeal?
(a) The lower class.
(b) The middle class.
(c) Men.
(d) The upper class.

2. What does Wollstonecraft say offers a great advantage in forming women's characters?
(a) Acquiring knowledge.
(b) Social interactions.
(c) First impressions.
(d) Religious upbringing.

3. What is the business of a woman's life?
(a) Motherhood.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Education.
(d) Marriage.

4. To whom does Rousseau's argument about virtue apply?
(a) Women.
(b) The rich.
(c) Men.
(d) Children.

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

6. What makes men naturally superior to women?
(a) Their physical size.
(b) Their intellect.
(c) Their conversational skills.
(d) Their beauty.

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

8. Over whom doesWollstonecraft want women to have power?
(a) Men.
(b) Society.
(c) Other women.
(d) Themselves.

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

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

11. What does woman's inferior strength keep them from attaining?
(a) Education.
(b) Power.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Freedom.

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

13. How does Wollstonecraft say God intended mankind to live after the Fall?
(a) In individual family units.
(b) In communities.
(c) As polygamists.
(d) In solitude.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has written instructional books that treat women as subordinate?

2. Women are slaves to _______________.

3. In what situation does Dr. Gregory tell women not to cultivate their minds?

4. How are men improved?

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

(see the answer keys)

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