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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term that describes parents caring for children while they are young and children in turn caring for parents when they are elderly?
(a) Duty to parents.
(b) Filial duty.
(c) Reciprocal duty.
(d) Familial duty.

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

3. Parents who are blindly obeyed are usually obeyed out of _____.
(a) Respect.
(b) Fear.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Love.

4. What does Wollstonecraft conclude about women who are the most modest?
(a) They are the least rational.
(b) They have improved their minds the least.
(c) They are the most rational.
(d) They have improved their minds the most.

5. From where do the duties of women come, according to Chapter 11?
(a) A sense of duty.
(b) A sense of propriety.
(c) A woman's father.
(d) The desire to please.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a woman’s first duty?

2. Where do some women who do not love their husbands fix their attention?

3. What causes women to become selfish, according to the fourth section of Chapter 13?

4. What parents are able to extort a great deal of respect from their children?

5. What can happen when mothers exhibit a lack of reason?

Short Essay Questions

1. How can women bring out modesty from chastity?

2. What is the focus of virtue for women, according to Wollstonecraft? How can women behave if they attain that virtue?

3. What is the focus of Chapter 9?

4. What problems does Wollstonecraft see with current methods of education in her society? What solution does she offer?

5. Explain what happens to children who are raised by parents who work from the heart and an understanding of the child?

6. What does Wollstonecraft say religion must be based on in the first section of Chapter 13?

7. What leads women to the romantic, sentimental twists of the mind, according to the second section of Chapter 13? What solution does Wollstonecraft offer?

8. What is the role of education, according to the fifth section of Chapter 13? How do silly mothers damage children?

9. Why does Wollstonecraft think it is worse for a married woman than a single woman to have an affair?

10. What is modesty? Why is it important, according to Wollstonecraft?

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