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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Wollstonecraft say should attend school between the ages of five and nine?
(a) Middle class children.
(b) Rich children.
(c) All children.
(d) Children who would be unable to be apprentices.

2. At what age does Wollstonecraft think children should be separated between trade schools and schools that teach humanities?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Nine.
(c) Ten.
(d) Fifteen.

3. What does Wollstonecraft address in Chapter 7?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Decency.
(c) Courting.
(d) Modesty.

4. What is a woman’s first duty?
(a) As a mother.
(b) As a citizen.
(c) As a rational being.
(d) As a wife.

5. What does Wollstonecraft think of women being closed up in convents and boarding schools?
(a) She supports it.
(b) She sees the benefits, but it is risky.
(c) She objects.
(d) Policies need to be reformed.

6. When does character formation occur?
(a) Early in childhood.
(b) The age range was not known during the 18th century.
(c) During adolescence.
(d) At the onset of adulthood.

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

8. What are the only professions available to women?
(a) Menial professions.
(b) Frivolous professions.
(c) Nursing and education.
(d) There are none worth mentioning.

9. What is woman's only duty to fulfill?
(a) Attractiveness.
(b) Chastity.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Humility.

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

11. What do many women not exercise, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Restraint.
(b) Their bodies.
(c) Their own minds.
(d) Intellectual conversation.

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

13. What does Wollstonecraft say children cannot be taught too early?
(a) That knowledge is the key to success.
(b) To give affection.
(c) Morality.
(d) To submit to reason.

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

15. What does Wollstonecraft conclude would happen if women were given more freedom?
(a) Little would change.
(b) They would be better wives.
(c) They would be better mothers.
(d) They would be better citizens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Parents who are blindly obeyed are usually obeyed out of _____.

2. What makes the charlatans addressed in the first section of Chapter 13 worse, according to Wollstonecraft?

3. Who wrote Some Thoughts Concerning Education?

4. In what educational situation do boys become slovenly?

5. What kind of example do most mothers set for their children?

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