Quiz: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

12 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. What does Wollstonecraft name in chapter 8 as the “one grand cause” of female weakness and depravity? Want of religious instruction Want of chastity in men Early marriage arranged by parents The reading of novels
2. In what sense does Wollstonecraft say she would join the cry against “masculine women”? If it means their refusal to marry If it means their study of the sciences and of philosophy If it means their ardour in hunting, shooting and gaming If it means their wish to vote
3. Complete Wollstonecraft’s call in chapter 3: “It is time to effect a revolution in …” the laws of marriage the constitution national education female manners
4. Which work does Wollstonecraft quote at length in the first section of chapter 5? Rousseau’s Confessions Rousseau’s Social Contract, on the general will Rousseau’s account of Sophia in Émile Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
5. Whom does Wollstonecraft give as an example of a modest man who accepted a great command? Lafayette The Duke of Marlborough Oliver Cromwell George Washington
6. According to the Advertisement, what would the promised second volume discuss? A reply to her critics in the reviews and periodicals The education of the poor in charity and Sunday schools The laws relative to women and their duties The history of women in antiquity and the Middle Ages
7. What does chapter 11 give as the simple definition of the reciprocal duty between parent and child? Children must marry as their parents direct until they reach the age of thirty Parents owe their children nothing beyond food and shelter until they can earn a living The parent who tends helpless infancy may claim like care in feeble age Children owe their parents unconditional obedience throughout the whole of life
8. Which of these occupations does chapter 9 not suggest for women? Managing a shop Physicians Regulating a farm Officers in the army
9. In the Rousseau passage quoted in chapter 8, what is opinion said to be among women? The throne of virtue The grave of virtue The servant of reason The enemy of chastity
10. On what condition, according to chapter 7, will women cease to be immodest? When women are given the vote When men are more chaste When dress is regulated by law When convent schools are reopened
11. How does Wollstonecraft define independence in chapter 5? Earning one’s own subsistence Freedom from a husband’s authority in law Owning landed property in her own name Possessing the right to vote for Parliament
12. What does Dr Gregory advise his daughters to do with any learning they have? Display it only in religious discussion at home Keep it a profound secret, especially from men Share it only with their husbands after marriage Use it to educate their younger brothers at home

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