Q 01/05

Which Gothic novel was written by Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter, who eloped with a poet at sixteen?

A) Northanger Abbey

B) Frankenstein

C) Jane Eyre

D) The Monk

Answer · why

B) Frankenstein

Frankenstein appeared in 1818, when Mary Shelley was 20. She grew up reading her mother's books and was raised to cherish her memory.

Q 02/05

Mary Wollstonecraft's Rights of Men answered which statesman's attack on the French Revolution?

A) William Pitt

B) Charles James Fox

C) Edmund Burke

D) Lord North

Answer · why

C) Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke's Reflections so angered her that she spent the rest of the month writing a rebuttal, and it made her famous overnight.

Q 03/05

Which philosopher married Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797, then published a candid memoir of her?

A) Jeremy Bentham

B) Thomas Malthus

C) William Paley

D) William Godwin

Answer · why

D) William Godwin

William Godwin meant the memoir as a loving tribute, but its frankness about her love affairs shocked readers and wrecked her reputation for almost a ...

Q 04/05

In Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft compared silly, superficial women to toys and which dogs?

A) Poodles

B) Greyhounds

C) Spaniels

D) Terriers

Answer · why

C) Spaniels

Spaniels was one of her sharpest jabs. She blamed the men who denied women learning, not any natural weakness of mind.

Q 05/05

Which artist engraved the plates for Mary Wollstonecraft's children's book Original Stories from Real Life?

A) William Blake

B) Thomas Bewick

C) John Flaxman

D) William Hogarth

Answer · why

A) William Blake

William Blake engraved the plates for the second edition of 1791, which stayed in print for around a quarter of a century.