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

2. What is the true foundation for morality?
(a) Parenthood.
(b) Reason.
(c) God.
(d) Marriage.

3. What kind of men easily appeal to women?
(a) Meek men.
(b) Rakish men.
(c) Uneducated men.
(d) Military men.

4. What author does Wollstonecraft speak the most highly of in Chapter 5?
(a) Mrs. Piozzi.
(b) Mrs. Macauley.
(c) Mrs. Shelley.
(d) Mrs. Chapone.

5. What is important to manners?
(a) Relationships.
(b) Proper appearance.
(c) Individual education.
(d) Friendship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes error and evil?

2. What practice reinforces women's inferiority and goes against nature?

3. Wollstonecraft hopes that _____________will forgive her.

4. What happens when women are prevented from having experiences and endeavors?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What irony does Wollstonecraft present in Chapter 2 in men's view of women? What kind of irony is this?

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

3. What does Wollstonecraft say she is going to start with in Chapter 1?

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

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

6. Explain Wollstonecraft's objection to the character of Sophia in Rousseau's Emilie.

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

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

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

10. What would be the result of the revolution Wollstonecraft wants to happen?

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