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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) Early associations and ideas.
(b) Religious upbringing.
(c) Formal education.
(d) Husband.

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

3. Which women in society have the most virtue, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Educated women.
(b) Mothers.
(c) Rich women.
(d) Poor women.

4. To whom does Rousseau's argument about virtue apply?
(a) Women.
(b) Men.
(c) Children.
(d) The rich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what kind of learning are women ridiculed?

2. What does reason have little sway over, according to Chapter 6?

3. What profession is “incompatible with freedom?”

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

5. What is the title of the work by Dr. Gregory Wollstonecraft that he addresses in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Wollstonecraft say about Rousseau's view of women's education?

5. What is included in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman before the first chapter?

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

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

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

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

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

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