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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. What do most women rely on instead of education?
(a) Their faith.
(b) Their fathers.
(c) Their skills.
(d) Their beauty.

3. Wollstonecraft hopes that _____________will forgive her.
(a) Her husband.
(b) God.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What has reason been mixed with over the course of mankind?

3. Who has written instructional books that treat women as subordinate?

4. What does Wollstonecraft want women to acquire?

5. What causes error and evil?

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