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

2. What would happen if women were treated like boys in terms of fear and emotional displays?
(a) Society would be more balanced.
(b) They would be more respectable.
(c) Men would be at home taking care of the children.
(d) They would be leaders.

3. For what kind of learning are women ridiculed?
(a) Relational learning.
(b) Associative learning.
(c) Investigative learning.
(d) Rote learning.

4. What does Wollstonecraft say offers a great advantage in forming women's characters?
(a) Acquiring knowledge.
(b) Religious upbringing.
(c) Social interactions.
(d) First impressions.

5. What gives man preeminence over creatures?
(a) Tools.
(b) Reason.
(c) Faith.
(d) Strength.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT true of women's education, according to Wollstonecraft?

2. What is the title of the work by Dr. Gregory Wollstonecraft that he addresses in Chapter 5?

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

4. What should men and women attain in the same way?

5. What is important to manners?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Wollstonecraft say about allowing boys and girls to play together?

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

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