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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Wollstonecraft try to address women, according to the Introduction?
(a) With metaphors.
(b) On an emotional level.
(c) Plainly.
(d) As rational beings.

3. What does Wollstonecraft say “warps the understanding” and thwarts civilization's progress?
(a) Royalty.
(b) Faith.
(c) Education.
(d) Men.

4. What does Wollstonecraft want women to acquire?
(a) Power.
(b) Money.
(c) Faith.
(d) Strength.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the women whom Wollstonecraft knows miserable?

2. What does Wollstonecraft say is inferior to virtue?

3. Who argues that man is a solitary animal?

4. What causes error and evil?

5. What forms, to some degree, man's character?

(see the answer key)

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