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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What often happens to boys who attend religious schools?
(a) They are unable to function outside of the church.
(b) They join the clergy.
(c) They have trouble finding wives.
(d) They avoid worship services.

2. What can happen if a woman loves her children only out of a sense of duty or because they are her own children?
(a) Fathers can take on the role of the mother.
(b) Nothing harmful.
(c) Problems can arise.
(d) The children can take on the role of the parents.

3. What clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Faith.
(c) Love.
(d) Emotion.

4. What is the best educational situation, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Country day schools.
(b) Individual education.
(c) Religious schools.
(d) Boarding schools.

5. How does Wollstonecraft try to address women, according to the Introduction?
(a) As rational beings.
(b) Plainly.
(c) With metaphors.
(d) On an emotional level.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the women whom Wollstonecraft knows miserable?

2. According to Wollstonecraft, to what might the questions she asks lead?

3. Whose letters does Wollstonecraft address at the end of Chapter 5?

4. What is the business of a woman's life?

5. What is important to manners?

(see the answer key)

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