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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What profession is “incompatible with freedom?”
(a) Any kind of office job.
(b) Beggar.
(c) A standing army.
(d) Royalty.

2. What forms, to some degree, man's character?
(a) His profession.
(b) His faith.
(c) His family.
(d) His outward appearance.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?

3. What causes error and evil?

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

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

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