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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. In what situation does Dr. Gregory tell women not to cultivate their minds?
(a) If they must work outside the home.
(b) If they are nobility.
(c) If they intend to marry.
(d) If they have children.

2. Which of the following is NOT true of women's education, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) It is regimented.
(b) It is fragmented.
(c) It is random.
(d) It is disorganized.

3. What usually happens to any amount of power a woman gets?
(a) It fades away.
(b) It is an illusion.
(c) It is taken away.
(d) It grows.

4. How does Wollstonecraft think boys and girls should play?
(a) Separately.
(b) Within specific age groups.
(c) Together.
(d) Quietly.

5. Whose letters does Wollstonecraft address at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Mrs. Macauley's.
(b) Bishop Arden's.
(c) Lord Chesterfield's.
(d) Rousseau's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other genre of writing by Dr. Fordyce is popular, according to Chapter 5?

2. How do men attain regal status?

3. How do love and arbitrary passion reign?

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

5. Which of Rousseau's characters does Wollstonecraft criticize?

Short Essay Questions

1. What argument does Wollstonecraft give at the beginning of Chapter 2 to justify women's pursuit and attainment of virtue?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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