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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

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) Familial duty.
(b) Filial duty.
(c) Duty to parents.
(d) Reciprocal duty.

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

3. To where are women confined, according to Chapter 9?
(a) Their private sphere.
(b) Their minds.
(c) Their town.
(d) The church and the home.

4. To whom does Wollstonecraft want to appeal?
(a) The middle class.
(b) The upper class.
(c) Men.
(d) The lower class.

5. What do men think of chastity?
(a) They see it as a duty.
(b) They prize it.
(c) They are indifferent toward it.
(d) They despise it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state are women kept?

2. What does reason have little sway over, according to Chapter 6?

3. What does modesty need to be distinguished from, according to Wollstonecraft?

4. What debases all mankind, according to Chapter 9?

5. Women are slaves to _______________.

(see the answer key)

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