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

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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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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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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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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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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?