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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do men attain regal status?
(a) Faith.
(b) Reason.
(c) Inheritance.
(d) Crimes.

2. What has reason been mixed with over the course of mankind?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Faith.
(d) Error.

3. What causes error and evil?
(a) Free will.
(b) Men.
(c) Poor education.
(d) Women.

4. To whom does Wollstonecraft want to appeal?
(a) The upper class.
(b) Men.
(c) The lower class.
(d) The middle class.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Wollstonecraft say God intended mankind to live after the Fall?

2. How does Wollstonecraft try to address women, according to the Introduction?

3. According to Wollstonecraft, to what might the questions she asks lead?

4. What kind of women does society speak out against?

5. What clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?

(see the answer key)

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