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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. How should education be supplemented?
(a) With faith.
(b) With individual study.
(c) With society in which people live.
(d) With public debate.

2. How are women like the rich?
(a) Both exploit others.
(b) Both are born with a set of privileges.
(c) Both are kept from society.
(d) Both are misunderstood.

3. What happens when women are prevented from having experiences and endeavors?
(a) Virtues do not form.
(b) They become immoral.
(c) They lose their free will.
(d) They become hermits.

4. What should passion subside into in order for a couple to be happy?
(a) Respect.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Trust.
(d) Tolerance.

5. What does Wollstonecraft call for to reform women's manners?
(a) A revolution.
(b) A reform of education.
(c) Finishing schools.
(d) Understanding from men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which women have less morality than primitive women?

2. What do women shy away from when it comes to men?

3. How does Wollstonecraft try to address women, according to the Introduction?

4. What type of people ignores their health in pursuit of their calling?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Wollstonecraft say she is pessimistic about in the Introduction? What effect does she see as a result?

9. Why does Wollstonecraft not blame women for falling for a rake?

10. How does Wollstonecraft compare women to the rich?

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