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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 6, what has a determinate effect on women's characters?
(a) Formal education.
(b) Husband.
(c) Early associations and ideas.
(d) Religious upbringing.

2. What is the only thing women are taught to be proud of?
(a) Their husbands.
(b) Their communities.
(c) Their children.
(d) Their beauty.

3. What has reason been mixed with over the course of mankind?
(a) Faith.
(b) Error.
(c) Intuition.
(d) Prejudice.

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

5. Why do women's opinions waver?
(a) They waver with the acquisition of knowledge.
(b) They listen to men's opinions.
(c) They have contradictory emotions.
(d) They seek to please others above all else.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what kind of learning are women ridiculed?

2. Who is the first author Wollstonecraft addresses in Chapter 5?

3. What does Rousseau say is required of girls for them to be thought beautiful?

4. What is the name of the character from Emilie Wollstonecraft criticizes in Chapter 5?

5. What type of people ignores their health in pursuit of their calling?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do instructional books written by men treat women?

2. Why do “rakes” find it easy to appeal to women?

3. What are Rousseau's views on women, according to Chapter 5?

4. Explain Wollstonecraft's objection to the character of Sophia in Rousseau's Emilie.

5. How do men attain regal power? How do their subjects react?

6. Why does Wollstonecraft not address every writer who has presented his views on subjugating women?

7. What does Wollstonecraft say she is going to start with in Chapter 1?

8. Why does Wollstonecraft not blame women for falling for a rake?

9. What kind of education do women have, according to the Introduction? What kind of women does this produce?

10. What do women believe about religion, according to Chapter 3?

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