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Wollstonecraft's Insights: A Deep Dive Quiz

Test your knowledge on Mary Wollstonecraft's revolutionary ideas about women's rights, education, and societal roles. This quiz challenges your understanding of her arguments against Rousseau and her vision for women's empowerment.

Explore key themes from Wollstonecraft's text.
Evaluate your comprehension of important concepts related to gender and education.
Engage with thought-provoking questions that encourage critical thinking.

14 Questions4 MinutesCreated by ThinkingSage42

In the first chapter, Wollstonecraft states that she disagrees with Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Why does she disagree?

Rousseau is a man, & he does not understand women

Rousseau was too religious in his statement

Rousseau did not acknowledge how men and women are naturally physically unequal & the natural state still is unequal

Wollstonecraft states that women have their own faults. Which one is NOT a fault she lists?

Women are too judgemental of each other

Women are too heavily influenced by romantic novels

Women don't try hard enough to be smart

Women can be ignorant

According to Wollstonecraft, women are taught to develop what time of behavior?

Appreciative

Artificial

Artistic

Affectionate

According to Wollstonecraft, misery in the world stems from what?

Reading the newspaper

The negligence of grandparents

The negligence of parents

Parents spoiling their children

In terms of education, the best institution for children to be educated in is...

Boarding schools

Same sex private schools

Catholic schools

Combined public and private schools

According to Wollstonecraft, women should not only have domestic knowledge, but other knowledge such as...

Housecleaning, IT manager, cooking

Software developer, child care, gardening

Design, Entertainment, Social services

Physicians, nurses, and politics

Wollstonecraft believed that the love of a woman has for her children is the most brutish because

Their love helps them develop a greater sense of affection when giving birth

The love for their childrend eradicates every spark of humanity

Justice, truth, everything is sacrificed for the sake of their own children

C & D

In what way does Wollstonecraft criticize Rousseau's view of women?

His portrayal of women as subjects of desire

Women naturally want to dress up

Men form the foundation for women's intellectual and moral development

Women and men should marry out of love and not from pragmatic arragments.

In regards to Wollstonecraft's perspective on parents and their daughters, she believed....

Stay away from people like Rousseau

Not place emphasis on their beauty with the obligatory disposition of pleasing the opposite sex

To develop the full skills necessary to be independent and self sustaining

All of the above

Who advises women to hide their knowledge of things whenever they can?

Hester Piozzi

Dr. John Gregory

Baroness de Stael

James Fordyce

In chapter 4, Wollstonecraft states "the power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusion from individual observations, is the only thing an immortal being can have that really deserves ti be called..."

Knowledge

Recognition

Awareness

Inspiration

Wollstonecraft argues that women ideas are connected to all of the following except..

Beauty

Education

Delicacy

Achieving the desires effected in a male

Wollstonecraft claims chastity cannot of itself produce modesty; it can produce...

Self-efficacy

Clout

Propriety of conduct

None of the above

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