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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 think of the idea of a coquette as natural?
(a) She thinks it has its merits.
(b) She thinks it will change.
(c) She thinks it is absurd.
(d) She feels the need to do more research before making a claim.

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

3. What profession is “incompatible with freedom?”
(a) Royalty.
(b) Beggar.
(c) A standing army.
(d) Any kind of office job.

4. What causes error and evil?
(a) Free will.
(b) Poor education.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

5. When it comes to relationships between men and women, who will always have the advantage?
(a) The rake.
(b) The man.
(c) Societal pressures.
(d) The woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the true foundation for morality?

2. What happens when women are prevented from having experiences and endeavors?

3. What does Wollstonecraft say “warps the understanding” and thwarts civilization's progress?

4. To whom does Wollstonecraft want to appeal?

5. What author does Wollstonecraft speak the most highly of in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What error do men make in their view of education?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Wollstonecraft say is the importance of individual education in Chapter 2? How must it be supplemented?

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

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

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

10. What does Wollstonecraft say about love in Chapter 4? What does she say is better than love?

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