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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. What does Wollstonecraft want women to acquire?
(a) Power.
(b) Money.
(c) Strength.
(d) Faith.

2. Why does Wollstonecraft not want to address every author who subjugates women?
(a) They will not understand her objections.
(b) It will take too long.
(c) She will repeat herself too much.
(d) She has already addressed all of them.

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

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

5. How does Wollstonecraft try to address women, according to the Introduction?
(a) On an emotional level.
(b) With metaphors.
(c) Plainly.
(d) As rational beings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do love and arbitrary passion reign?

3. What should woman be willing to sacrifice in order to be agreeable to man?

4. What gives man preeminence over creatures?

5. Whose letters does Wollstonecraft address at the end of Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are women made weak, according to the beginning of Chapter 4?

2. What would be the result of the revolution Wollstonecraft wants to happen?

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Wollstonecraft ask for forgiveness in her Introduction?

8. What justification do men use for the inferiority of women that Wollstonecraft compares to tyrannical rulers?

9. What does Wollstonecraft say about women's first impressions in Chapter 6?

10. What argument does Wollstonecraft give at the beginning of Chapter 2 to justify women's pursuit and attainment of virtue?

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