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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What women are too weak and artificial for the author to address in her work?
(a) Mothers.
(b) Rich women.
(c) Women of the Church.
(d) Poor women.

2. Who has written instructional books that treat women as subordinate?
(a) Church authorities.
(b) Women.
(c) Men.
(d) Royalty.

3. Which of the following is NOT a focus of women's education?
(a) Perfecting their beauty.
(b) Trade skills.
(c) Producing silly women.
(d) Trying to get married.

4. What do kings naturally desire?
(a) Flattery.
(b) Education.
(c) Money.
(d) Marriage.

5. Who argues that man is a solitary animal?
(a) Milton.
(b) Dr. Gregory.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Descartes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession is “incompatible with freedom?”

2. What causes error and evil?

3. What does Wollstonecraft say is inferior to virtue?

4. What does Wollstonecraft say “warps the understanding” and thwarts civilization's progress?

5. What does Wollstonecraft want women to acquire?

(see the answer key)

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