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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 causes women to be either fine ladies or effective housewives?
(a) Education.
(b) Influence from their parents.
(c) Faith.
(d) Influence from their husbands.

2. What gives man preeminence over creatures?
(a) Tools.
(b) Strength.
(c) Faith.
(d) Reason.

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

4. What does Wollstonecraft say is inferior to virtue?
(a) Intellect.
(b) Reason.
(c) Elegance.
(d) Marriage.

5. What should men and women attain in the same way?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Education.
(c) Relationships.
(d) Strength.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are men improved?

2. Where must virtuous beings derive their virtue?

3. In Chapter 6, what does Wollstonecraft say is the only thing that can bring independence and freedom?

4. What is important to manners?

5. How do Rousseau and Dr. Gregory make women appear?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Wollstonecraft say about Rousseau's view of religion for women?

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

5. What does Jean-Jacques Rousseau argue about the nature of man?

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

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

8. How does Wollstonecraft compare women to the rich?

9. What irony does Wollstonecraft present in Chapter 2 in men's view of women? What kind of irony is this?

10. What does Wollstonecraft say about allowing boys and girls to play together?

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