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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are women like the rich?
(a) Both are misunderstood.
(b) Both are kept from society.
(c) Both exploit others.
(d) Both are born with a set of privileges.

2. Where must virtuous beings derive their virtue?
(a) Communities.
(b) God.
(c) Reason.
(d) Families.

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

4. To what does Wollstonecraft compare women's education?
(a) The flight of a butterfly.
(b) Military men.
(c) The rich.
(d) A dance.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What gives man preeminence over creatures?

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

5. How does Wollstonecraft try to address women, according to the Introduction?

(see the answer key)

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