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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the work by Dr. Gregory Wollstonecraft that he addresses in Chapter 5?
(a) Raising Women.
(b) On the Education of Daughters.
(c) Legacy to His Daughters.
(d) Emilie.

2. What is the true foundation for morality?
(a) God.
(b) Reason.
(c) Parenthood.
(d) Marriage.

3. What forms, to some degree, man's character?
(a) His outward appearance.
(b) His faith.
(c) His family.
(d) His profession.

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

5. How are men improved?
(a) By faith.
(b) By virtue.
(c) By women.
(d) By striving for reason.

6. Who has written instructional books that treat women as subordinate?
(a) Women.
(b) Men.
(c) Church authorities.
(d) Royalty.

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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 have nothing to do that requires it.
(d) They will indulge it.

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. What does Wollstonecraft say about love?
(a) It grows.
(b) It is the driving force in society.
(c) It fades.
(d) It carries too much weight in society.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What should passion subside into in order for a couple to be happy?

3. What usually happens to any amount of power a woman gets?

4. What does Wollstonecraft say “warps the understanding” and thwarts civilization's progress?

5. Who complains about the silliness of women?

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