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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has reason been mixed with over the course of mankind?
(a) Faith.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Error.
(d) Intuition.

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

3. What is the only thing women are taught to be proud of?
(a) Their beauty.
(b) Their children.
(c) Their communities.
(d) Their husbands.

4. What is the only pursuit women are taught to have?
(a) Motherhood.
(b) They are not taught any pursuit.
(c) The arts.
(d) The attainment of beauty.

5. What usually happens to any amount of power a woman gets?
(a) It grows.
(b) It fades away.
(c) It is taken away.
(d) It is an illusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?

2. In what state are women kept?

3. What do most women rely on instead of education?

4. Where must virtuous beings derive their virtue?

5. Why are the women whom Wollstonecraft knows miserable?

(see the answer key)

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