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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. Where should children live while they are in school?
(a) At home.
(b) At schiool.
(c) In dormitories near the school.
(d) With their teachers.

2. What does Wollstonecraft say about humble men?
(a) They are presumptuous.
(b) They are passionate.
(c) They are steady.
(d) They are timid.

3. What does Wollstonecraft say about modest men?
(a) They are presumptuous.
(b) They are timid.
(c) They are steady.
(d) They are passionate.

4. What do women not indulge in, according to Chapter 8?
(a) Manners.
(b) Truths.
(c) Niceties.
(d) Platitudes.

5. What does section three of Chapter 13 address?
(a) Women's fondness for their outward appearance.
(b) Women's fondness for poetry.
(c) Men's fondness for women's outward appearance.
(d) Child rearing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What takes the place of woman's senses as her character is formed?

2. What does Wollstonecraft say is needed in order for morality to prevail in society?

3. In what educational situation do boys become slovenly?

4. What subject do women shy away from reading?

5. What does Wollstonecraft think should happen to men who ruin women?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of education does Wollstonecraft support at the beginning of Chapter 12? Why?

2. Explain how parents govern their children, according to the beginning of Chapter 10?

3. What does Wollstonecraft say about meek mothers?

4. What justification does Wollstonecraft give in Chapter 10 for strengthening women's understanding?

5. Why is morality undermined in women's lives, according to Wollstonecraft?

6. How does Wollstonecraft order women's duties in society?

7. Where does Wollstonecraft believe education should start?

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

9. How does Wollstonecraft explain modesty?

10. Why does Wollstonecraft advocate national schools, according to the end of Chapter 12?

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