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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What must women avoid in order to bring modest out of chastity?
(a) Novels.
(b) Employments that do not exercise sensibility.
(c) Fads.
(d) Employments that only exercise sensibility.

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

4. What does Wollstonecraft say should be the focus of public education?
(a) Preparing children to function in the world.
(b) Providing a religious foundation for children.
(c) Keeping children off the streets during the day.
(d) Forming citizens.

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

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

7. What does Wollstonecraft say would be one measure of success for her educational system?
(a) The pursuit of professions.
(b) Compassion for children.
(c) The ability to hold intellectual conversations.
(d) Compassion for animals.

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

9. What virtue does Wollstonecraft describe as a kind of self-abasement?
(a) Reason.
(b) Faith.
(c) Humility.
(d) Vanity.

10. From where must a parent work in order to gain the correct type of affection from a child, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Society.
(b) The mind.
(c) The rod.
(d) The heart.

11. From where should women get advice about what to read, according to Chapter 13?
(a) Their husbands or fathers.
(b) Their mothers or sisters.
(c) Someone they admire.
(d) Their former schoolmasters.

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

13. 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.

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

15. Who can get away with falling into sexual immorality?
(a) No one.
(b) Widows.
(c) Married women.
(d) Single women.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What will teach girls the lessons they will practice on their husbands?

3. What does Wollstonecraft address in Chapter 7?

4. What does Wollstonecraft say children cannot be taught too early?

5. What does Wollstonecraft conclude would happen if women were given more freedom?

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