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According to Wollstonecraft, what is the cause of "most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind"?

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The respect paid to property

Men cheating on their wives

The lack of adequate public school education

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Question 45 pts

How can women become more virtuous, according to Wollstonecraft?

Have more children.

Read the Bible more.

Obey their husbands.

Become independent and educated.

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Question 55 pts

According to Wollstonecraft, why did many mothers in that time spurn nursing their children?

They could not do it in public.

They feared admonishment from their husbands.

They thought it was sinful.

They wanted to preserve their youthful beauty.

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Question 65 pts

What is the most accurate statement?

Wollstonecraft thought women were more debased by the pursuit of wealth than men.

Wollstonecraft thought women couldn't be statesmen.

Wollstonecraft thought women had plenty of loopholes to escape through to success and virtue.

Wollstonecraft believed George Washington was not a hero.

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Question 75 pts

What is the "severe restraint" Wollstonecraft says women are enslaved to?

Blind propriety

Religion

Fortune

A man's checkbook

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Question 85 pts

According to Wollstonecraft, what was the simplest way a woman could acquire power in 18th century society?

By convincing a man to marry her.

By stealing money from men.

By abstaining from sex with men.

By going to school and becoming educated.

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Question 95 pts

Wollstonecraft was content with women not having direct representation in the government, as long as the government paid some attention to women's needs.

True

False

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Question 105 pts

What profession does Wollstonecraft say women who "attempt to earn their own subsistence" often turn to?

All of these

Dress-makers

Governesses

Prostitutes

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Question 115 pts

Virginia Woolf was a part of the group of artists and writers known as:

The Inklings

The United Feminist Authors of Great Britain (UFAGB)

The Admiral's Men

The Bloomsbury Group

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Question 125 pts

Why does Woolf adopt a cautious, inviting tone in "Shakespeare's Sister"?

Because she wanted to enrage her male readers.

Because she was afraid of what men would think.

Because she wanted to demonstrate her submissiveness and quiet nature

Because she wanted her audience to be lured into reading a subversive essay.

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Question 135 pts

"[Woman] pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from __________.

History

Class

Propriety

Shakespeare

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Question 145 pts

What example does Woolf give of a famous woman in history books?

Queen Elizabeth

Joan of Arc

Susan B. Anthony

Mary Magdalene

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Question 155 pts

According to Woolf, why was it impossible for a woman in Shakespeare's time to write a great play?

Women were not educated as Shakespeare was.

Women in Shakespeare's time didn't dream of becoming a writer.

Women don't have the inherent intellectual capability to write large, dramatic works.

Women were too busy working and raising children.

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Question 165 pts

What does Woolf speculate happened to a woman "born with a great gift" in the sixteenth century?

She went crazy.

She shot herself.

All of these

She lived in a lonely cottage outside of the village.

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Question 175 pts

Who are George Eliot, George Sand, and Currer Bell (referenced by Woolf's essay)?

They are women poets in Shakespeare's time who were never recognized for their gifts.

They are nineteenth century women novelists who wrote under male pseudonyms, to protect their identity.

They are male authors who forbid women to write novels in the nineteenth century.

They are male poets who embraced feminist principles.

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Question 185 pts

Who does Woolf say "stands where the actress stood in the time of Shakespeare"?

A woman composer

A woman novelist

A virtuous wife

A male actor

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Question 195 pts

What, according to Woolf, does the masculine complex desire most?

Doughnuts.

That men and women should live in harmony.

That men should be superior.

That women should be inferior.

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Question 205 pts

What happens to Shakespeare's sister, in Woolf's story?

She lives a lonely, forgotten life in a London bordello

She is impregnated by an actor and commits suicide one winter's night.

She writes a great tragedy, only no one reads it.

She murders her brother, and writes under the pseudonym Orlando.

Answer 1

• The respect paid to property  is the cause of "most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind"
• 45.According to Wollstonecraft women can become virtuous by becoming independent and educated.
• 75.Blind propriety  is the "severe restraint" Wollstonecraft says women are enslaved to
• 105.Wollstonecraft mentions the profession of prostitutes
• 115.Virginia Woolf was a part of the group of artists and writers known as: the Bloomsbury group
• Due to time limit,only some could be answered,remaining can be asked as another question,they will be answered,thankyou for your cooperation