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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What gives man preeminence over creatures?
(a) Faith.
(b) Strength.
(c) Tools.
(d) Reason.

4. Why are the women whom Wollstonecraft knows miserable?
(a) Their marriages were arranged.
(b) Their educations have been neglected.
(c) They are forced to work outside their homes.
(d) Their husbands are all away at war.

5. To what does Wollstonecraft compare women's education?
(a) The rich.
(b) A dance.
(c) The flight of a butterfly.
(d) Military men.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state are women kept?

2. To whom does Wollstonecraft want to appeal?

3. What type of people ignores their health in pursuit of their calling?

4. What should men and women attain in the same way?

5. What does Wollstonecraft want women to acquire?

(see the answer key)

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