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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a focus of women's education?
(a) Trade skills.
(b) Perfecting their beauty.
(c) Trying to get married.
(d) Producing silly women.

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

3. What clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Faith.
(d) Love.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom does Wollstonecraft want to appeal?

3. How do men attain regal status?

4. Who argues that man is a solitary animal?

5. What does Wollstonecraft want women to acquire?

(see the answer key)

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