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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes error and evil?

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

3. In what area does Wollstonecraft concede men's superiority?

4. What clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?

5. How do men attain regal status?

(see the answer key)

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