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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what area does Wollstonecraft concede men's superiority?
(a) Physical strength.
(b) Conversational skills.
(c) Reason.
(d) Understanding Scriptures.

3. In what state are women kept?
(a) Grace.
(b) Solitude.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Innocence.

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

5. To what does Wollstonecraft compare women's education?
(a) Military men.
(b) The flight of a butterfly.
(c) The rich.
(d) A dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the women whom Wollstonecraft knows miserable?

2. What gives man preeminence over creatures?

3. What is the true foundation for morality?

4. What is the only thing women are taught to be proud of?

5. What does Wollstonecraft want women to acquire?

(see the answer key)

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