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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) Women of the Church.
(b) Poor women.
(c) Rich women.
(d) Mothers.

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

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

4. Who has written instructional books that treat women as subordinate?
(a) Church authorities.
(b) Men.
(c) Royalty.
(d) Women.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?

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

3. Which of the following is NOT a focus of women's education?

4. Wollstonecraft hopes that _____________will forgive her.

5. What forms, to some degree, man's character?

(see the answer key)

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