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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. Which of the following is NOT a focus of women's education?
(a) Perfecting their beauty.
(b) Trade skills.
(c) Trying to get married.
(d) Producing silly women.

2. What do kings naturally desire?
(a) Money.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Education.
(d) Flattery.

3. What is important to manners?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Proper appearance.
(c) Individual education.
(d) Relationships.

4. How are men improved?
(a) By women.
(b) By striving for reason.
(c) By faith.
(d) By virtue.

5. What author does Wollstonecraft speak the most highly of in Chapter 5?
(a) Mrs. Piozzi.
(b) Mrs. Macauley.
(c) Mrs. Shelley.
(d) Mrs. Chapone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wollstonecraft want women to acquire?

2. What causes women to be either fine ladies or effective housewives?

3. What is the true foundation for morality?

4. Who is the first author Wollstonecraft addresses in Chapter 5?

5. What does Wollstonecraft say offers a great advantage in forming women's characters?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was clouded reason? What led to reason being clouded?

4. Explain what Wollstonecraft says about people of genius in Chapter 3.

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

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

7. What are Rousseau's views on women, according to Chapter 5?

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

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

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

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