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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes mothers to run into the extremes in their parenting?
(a) The whims of their husbands.
(b) Peer pressure.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Lack of reason.

2. What, according to Some Thoughts Concerning Education, may contribute to the weakness of women?
(a) Their physical beauty.
(b) Their dependence on their families.
(c) Their desire to get married.
(d) Their lack of education.

3. What does Wollstonecraft say is needed in order for morality to prevail in society?
(a) Equality.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Reason.
(d) Chastity.

4. What is the most important aspect in attaining rank and class, according to Chapter 9?
(a) Property.
(b) Birthright.
(c) Geography.
(d) Education.

5. Who must work to cultivate chastity, modesty, and public spirit, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Men.
(b) Educators.
(c) Women.
(d) All mankind.

6. What debases all mankind, according to Chapter 9?
(a) Riches.
(b) Religion.
(c) Patriarchy.
(d) Immorality.

7. What can happen when mothers exhibit a lack of reason?
(a) They can give in to the whims of their family.
(b) They are unable to be chaste women.
(c) They do not want to be mothers.
(d) They can become careless or unnatural mothers.

8. Where does Wollstonecraft say there is little true heroism found anymore?
(a) Parliament.
(b) The private sector.
(c) The military.
(d) The community.

9. What does Wollstonecraft address in the fifth section of Chapter 13?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Early education for children.
(c) Parenting.
(d) Marriage.

10. What does Wollstonecraft discuss the effects of in Chapter 9?
(a) Education.
(b) Gender stereotypes.
(c) Rank and class.
(d) Society.

11. How can children be encouraged to think on their own?
(a) By educating them with adults.
(b) By allowing them to shape their own education.
(c) By teaching them at home.
(d) By educating them together.

12. What does Wollstonecraft say about education at the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) It should be a national concern.
(b) It should be strictly religious.
(c) It should be modeled after monasteries.
(d) It should be completely secular.

13. According to the fourth section of Chapter 13, what is more commonly found in the male world than the female world?
(a) Mutual respect.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Rivalry.

14. From where does a lot of the misery of the world stem?
(a) Lack of reason.
(b) Immorality.
(c) Parental negligence.
(d) Negligence of children.

15. What must women avoid in order to bring modest out of chastity?
(a) Novels.
(b) Employments that only exercise sensibility.
(c) Fads.
(d) Employments that do not exercise sensibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what educational situation do children not learn ingenuity of thought?

2. When does character formation occur?

3. From where must a parent work in order to gain the correct type of affection from a child, according to Wollstonecraft?

4. What happens to civilization as a result of systems of rank?

5. What types of people does Wollstonecraft criticize in the first section of Chapter 13?

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