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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does modesty need to be distinguished from, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Reason.
(b) Faith.
(c) Vanity.
(d) Humility.

2. What will teach girls the lessons they will practice on their husbands?
(a) Their faith in God.
(b) Their upbringing.
(c) The relationship between their own parents.
(d) Their relationship with their father.

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

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

5. What causes women to become selfish, according to the fourth section of Chapter 13?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Children.
(c) Over-fondness of dress.
(d) Ignorance.

6. What, according to Some Thoughts Concerning Education, may contribute to the weakness of women?
(a) Their physical beauty.
(b) Their desire to get married.
(c) Their dependence on their families.
(d) Their lack of education.

7. What do meek wives desire, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Their children's love.
(c) The respect of their peers.
(d) Their husband's approval.

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

9. Who wrote Some Thoughts Concerning Education?
(a) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
(b) Mary Wollstonecraft.
(c) Henry David Thoreau.
(d) John Locke.

10. What does Wollstonecraft see as a solution to the disadvantages of both private and public schools?
(a) Root them in religion.
(b) Blend them.
(c) Secularize them.
(d) Eliminate all systems and restart from scratch.

11. What kind of governing can parents tend to, according to Chapter 10?
(a) Balanced.
(b) Loving.
(c) Tyrannical.
(d) Non-existent.

12. What does parental affection lead to?
(a) Filial duty.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Chastity.
(d) Rational adults.

13. Where do some women who do not love their husbands fix their attention?
(a) On themselves.
(b) Their social obligations.
(c) Their husbands.
(d) Their children.

14. What is the most important aspect in attaining rank and class, according to Chapter 9?
(a) Property.
(b) Geography.
(c) Education.
(d) Birthright.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do women not indulge in, according to Chapter 8?

2. What must women avoid in order to bring modest out of chastity?

3. What reason is there to obey a parent only because they are a parent?

4. What does Wollstonecraft discuss the effects of in Chapter 9?

5. How do women whose duties come from a sense of propriety often behave in their own marriages?

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