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Quiz for Viewpoints 19.1: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft on Women’s Nature and Education

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1. With which of these statements would Rousseau have agreed?

Men contribute less than women to the common good.

Men and women contribute to the common good in the same way.

Men and women contribute equally to the common good.

Women contribute less than men to the common good.

Correct: The answer is c. While Rousseau saw the contributions of men and women as equal, he did not think they contributed in the same way.

Incorrect: The answer is c. While Rousseau saw the contributions of men and women as equal, he did not think they contributed in the same way.

1. With which of these statements would Rousseau have agreed?

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2. Why did Rousseau believe that women were more dependent on men than men were on women?

In his view, women never fully matured.

In his view, women were incapable of providing their own food and shelter.

In his view, women depended on men for both their desires and their needs.

In his view, women were weaker in every way than men.

Correct: The answer is c. In Rousseau’s view, women could only acquire the things they wanted and needed if men deemed them worthy.

Incorrect: The answer is c. In Rousseau’s view, women could only acquire the things they wanted and needed if men deemed them worthy.

2. Why did Rousseau believe that women were more dependent on men than men were on women?

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3. Which of these did Rousseau see as an essential duty of women?

To please men

To please themselves

To support the state

To please God

Correct: The answer is a. Rousseau placed women in absolutely subordinate position. As he put it, “to please men, to be useful to them, to make herself loved and honored by them, to raise them when young, to care for them when grown, to counsel them, to console them, to make their lives agreeable and sweet—these are the duties of women at all times, and they ought to be taught from childhood.”

Incorrect: The answer is a. Rousseau placed women in absolutely subordinate position. As he put it, “to please men, to be useful to them, to make herself loved and honored by them, to raise them when young, to care for them when grown, to counsel them, to console them, to make their lives agreeable and sweet—these are the duties of women at all times, and they ought to be taught from childhood.”

3. Which of these did Rousseau see as an essential duty of women?

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4. According to Wollstonecraft, which of these did Rousseau believe a woman should never be?

Brave

Independent

Wealthy

Stoic

Correct: The answer is b. Wollstonecraft decried Rousseau’s efforts to deny women their independence and to turn them into “coquettish slaves.”

Incorrect: The answer is b. Wollstonecraft decried Rousseau’s efforts to deny women their independence and to turn them into “coquettish slaves.”

4. According to Wollstonecraft, which of these did Rousseau believe a woman should never be?

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5. With which of these statements would Wollstonecraft have agreed?

Men and women should adopt the same principles and pursue the same virtues.

Men and women should behave in accordance with the principles that are appropriate to their sex.

Women have a greater capacity for virtue than men.

Men have a greater capacity for virtue than women.

Correct: The answer is a. Wollstonecraft saw moral principles as absolutes. Thus, both men and women who wanted to be virtuous had to adopt the same principles.

Incorrect: The answer is a. Wollstonecraft saw moral principles as absolutes. Thus, both men and women who wanted to be virtuous had to adopt the same principles.

5. With which of these statements would Wollstonecraft have agreed?

Quiz for Viewpoints 19.1: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft on Women’s Nature and Education

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