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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) Strength.
(b) Faith.
(c) Power.
(d) Money.

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

3. What profession is “incompatible with freedom?”
(a) Beggar.
(b) A standing army.
(c) Any kind of office job.
(d) Royalty.

4. How do men attain regal status?
(a) Inheritance.
(b) Crimes.
(c) Faith.
(d) Reason.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who argues that man is a solitary animal?

2. What clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?

3. What do kings naturally desire?

4. Why are the women whom Wollstonecraft knows miserable?

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

(see the answer key)

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