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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How are men improved?
(a) By women.
(b) By virtue.
(c) By faith.
(d) By striving for reason.

3. Which of the following is NOT a focus of women's education?
(a) Producing silly women.
(b) Trade skills.
(c) Trying to get married.
(d) Perfecting their beauty.

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

5. What type of people ignores their health in pursuit of their calling?
(a) Mothers.
(b) The poor.
(c) People of genius.
(d) Religious men and women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wollstonecraft hopes that _____________will forgive her.

2. What does Wollstonecraft say “warps the understanding” and thwarts civilization's progress?

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

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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