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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why are the women whom Wollstonecraft knows miserable?
(a) They are forced to work outside their homes.
(b) Their marriages were arranged.
(c) Their husbands are all away at war.
(d) Their educations have been neglected.

5. How does Wollstonecraft say God intended mankind to live after the Fall?
(a) In solitude.
(b) In communities.
(c) In individual family units.
(d) As polygamists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes error and evil?

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

3. Who argues that man is a solitary animal?

4. What kind of women does society speak out against?

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

(see the answer key)

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