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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 want women to acquire?
(a) Money.
(b) Strength.
(c) Faith.
(d) Power.

2. What does Wollstonecraft say is inferior to virtue?
(a) Elegance.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Reason.
(d) Intellect.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do men attain regal status?

3. What profession is “incompatible with freedom?”

4. What causes error and evil?

5. Wollstonecraft hopes that _____________will forgive her.

(see the answer key)

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