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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. To whom does Rousseau's argument about virtue apply?
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) The rich.
(d) Men.
2. From where does true beauty arise, according to Chapter 6?
(a) The mind.
(b) Companionship.
(c) Understanding.
(d) The heart.
3. What usually happens to any amount of power a woman gets?
(a) It grows.
(b) It is taken away.
(c) It fades away.
(d) It is an illusion.
4. What makes men naturally superior to women?
(a) Their physical size.
(b) Their beauty.
(c) Their conversational skills.
(d) Their intellect.
5. 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.
Short Answer Questions
1. What should passion subside into in order for a couple to be happy?
2. What does Wollstonecraft say about love?
3. For what kind of learning are women ridiculed?
4. Why are the women whom Wollstonecraft knows miserable?
5. What effect do men and circumstances have on women, according to Wollstonecraft?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Wollstonecraft say about allowing boys and girls to play together?
2. What argument does Wollstonecraft give at the beginning of Chapter 2 to justify women's pursuit and attainment of virtue?
3. How are women made weak, according to the beginning of Chapter 4?
4. What is included in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman before the first chapter?
5. How do men attain regal power? How do their subjects react?
6. What does Wollstonecraft say about women's first impressions in Chapter 6?
7. Explain what Wollstonecraft says about people of genius in Chapter 3.
8. What does Wollstonecraft say she is going to start with in Chapter 1?
9. What was clouded reason? What led to reason being clouded?
10. What justification do men use for the inferiority of women that Wollstonecraft compares to tyrannical rulers?
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