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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What effect do men and circumstances have on women, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Strength.
(b) Weakness.
(c) Enslavement.
(d) Education.

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

5. How does Wollstonecraft try to address women, according to the Introduction?
(a) Plainly.
(b) As rational beings.
(c) On an emotional level.
(d) With metaphors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes men naturally superior to women?

2. Why do women's opinions waver?

3. What does Wollstonecraft think of the idea of a coquette as natural?

4. What does a man who exercises absolute power lose?

5. What type of women delight in using whatever small power they have?

(see the answer key)

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