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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
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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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