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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 do most women rely on instead of education?
(a) Their fathers.
(b) Their beauty.
(c) Their faith.
(d) Their skills.
2. Why does Rousseau think religion should be taken away from woman?
(a) A man should explain it to her.
(b) Religious freedom may lead her to want additional liberties.
(c) All she needs to know is taught to her in childhood.
(d) All she needs to know about religion is that God's will states she is inferior.
3. What happens when women are prevented from having experiences and endeavors?
(a) Virtues do not form.
(b) They lose their free will.
(c) They become hermits.
(d) They become immoral.
4. What would happen if women were treated like boys in terms of fear and emotional displays?
(a) Men would be at home taking care of the children.
(b) They would be more respectable.
(c) Society would be more balanced.
(d) They would be leaders.
5. What is the only pursuit women are taught to have?
(a) The attainment of beauty.
(b) The arts.
(c) Motherhood.
(d) They are not taught any pursuit.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what situation does Dr. Gregory tell women not to cultivate their minds?
2. What is the business of a woman's life?
3. What is the true foundation for morality?
4. What type of women delight in using whatever small power they have?
5. How does Wollstonecraft say God intended mankind to live after the Fall?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do instructional books written by men treat women?
2. How are women made weak, according to the beginning of Chapter 4?
3. What kind of education do women have, according to the Introduction? What kind of women does this produce?
4. What does Wollstonecraft say about Rousseau's view of women's education?
5. Why does Wollstonecraft not address every writer who has presented his views on subjugating women?
6. What argument does Wollstonecraft give at the beginning of Chapter 2 to justify women's pursuit and attainment of virtue?
7. Explain Wollstonecraft's objection to the character of Sophia in Rousseau's Emilie.
8. How does Wollstonecraft compare women to the rich?
9. Explain what Wollstonecraft says about people of genius in Chapter 3.
10. What do women believe about religion, according to Chapter 3?
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