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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 is the only pursuit women are taught to have?
(a) They are not taught any pursuit.
(b) The arts.
(c) The attainment of beauty.
(d) Motherhood.

2. Why does Rousseau think girls should have as little liberty as possible?
(a) They do not have the intellect to understand liberty.
(b) They will indulge it.
(c) It is ordained this way by God.
(d) They have nothing to do that requires it.

3. How do men attain regal status?
(a) Inheritance.
(b) Reason.
(c) Faith.
(d) Crimes.

4. Women are slaves to _______________.
(a) First impressions.
(b) Positive impressions.
(c) They are often neutral to impressions.
(d) Negative impressions.

5. What does Wollstonecraft want women to acquire?
(a) Faith.
(b) Money.
(c) Strength.
(d) Power.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose children's books does Wollstonecraft address in Chapter 5?

2. Why are the women whom Wollstonecraft knows miserable?

3. Who argues that man is a solitary animal?

4. Which women have less morality than primitive women?

5. From where does true beauty arise, according to Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain what Wollstonecraft says about people of genius in Chapter 3.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Wollstonecraft compare women to the rich?

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

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