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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 is the only thing women are taught to be proud of?
(a) Their communities.
(b) Their beauty.
(c) Their children.
(d) Their husbands.

2. According to Wollstonecraft, to what might the questions she asks lead?
(a) More questions.
(b) Crises of faith.
(c) Truths.
(d) Divorce.

3. What does Wollstonecraft say “warps the understanding” and thwarts civilization's progress?
(a) Royalty.
(b) Education.
(c) Faith.
(d) Men.

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

5. What is the business of a woman's life?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Motherhood.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is important to manners?

2. Whose children's books does Wollstonecraft address in Chapter 5?

3. Wollstonecraft hopes that _____________will forgive her.

4. Why does Rousseau think religion should be taken away from woman?

5. What does Wollstonecraft say is inferior to virtue?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Wollstonecraft not address every writer who has presented his views on subjugating women?

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

8. How does Wollstonecraft compare women to the rich?

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

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

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