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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 does reason have little sway over, according to Chapter 6?
(a) Quick associations.
(b) Spiritual experiences.
(c) Prejudices.
(d) Emotion.

2. What does Rousseau say is required of girls for them to be thought beautiful?
(a) They must have children.
(b) They must be kept under constant and severe restraint in their bodies and minds.
(c) They must be married.
(d) They must not be educated.

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

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

5. What type of people ignores their health in pursuit of their calling?
(a) Religious men and women.
(b) Mothers.
(c) People of genius.
(d) The poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a man who exercises absolute power lose?

2. Why does Rousseau think girls should have as little liberty as possible?

3. What does woman's inferior strength keep them from attaining?

4. What type of women delight in using whatever small power they have?

5. Which women in society have the most virtue, according to Wollstonecraft?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Wollstonecraft compare women to the rich?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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