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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 Wollstonecraft say about love?
(a) It fades.
(b) It grows.
(c) It carries too much weight in society.
(d) It is the driving force in society.

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

3. How do love and arbitrary passion reign?
(a) By their own authority.
(b) By reason.
(c) By faith.
(d) By intuition.

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

5. What makes Rousseau think women should be weaker and more passive than men?
(a) Their physical inferiority.
(b) Evidence from the Bible.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Their lack of motivation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What forms, to some degree, man's character?

2. To whom does Rousseau's argument about virtue apply?

3. Why does Wollstonecraft not want to address every author who subjugates women?

4. How does Wollstonecraft think boys and girls should play?

5. Which women have less morality than primitive women?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Wollstonecraft say about women's first impressions in Chapter 6?

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

3. What was clouded reason? What led to reason being clouded?

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

5. How are women made weak, according to the beginning of Chapter 4?

6. What do women believe about religion, according to Chapter 3?

7. Why do “rakes” find it easy to appeal to women?

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

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

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

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