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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do women not indulge in, according to Chapter 8?
(a) Niceties.
(b) Manners.
(c) Platitudes.
(d) Truths.
2. What does Wollstonecraft say about education at the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) It should be strictly religious.
(b) It should be modeled after monasteries.
(c) It should be completely secular.
(d) It should be a national concern.
3. From where does a lot of the misery of the world stem?
(a) Parental negligence.
(b) Immorality.
(c) Lack of reason.
(d) Negligence of children.
4. To what would women progress if they were given the same fundamental rights and freedoms as men?
(a) Perfection.
(b) Chastity.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Ideal motherhood.
5. Where do some women who do not love their husbands fix their attention?
(a) Their children.
(b) On themselves.
(c) Their husbands.
(d) Their social obligations.
6. What can be harmful to the growth of parental affection, according to Chapter 10?
(a) Boarding school.
(b) Governesses
(c) Live-in servants.
(d) The use of a nurse.
7. What makes the charlatans addressed in the first section of Chapter 13 worse, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) When they insist that they are not charlatans.
(b) When they disappear without a trace, taking women's money with them.
(c) When they claim to be Christians.
(d) When they return to the same woman again and again.
8. In what educational situation do boys become slovenly?
(a) Country day schools.
(b) Individual education.
(c) Religious schools.
(d) Boarding schools.
9. How do women whose duties come from a sense of propriety often behave in their own marriages?
(a) As tyrants.
(b) As children.
(c) As companions.
(d) As servants.
10. What are the only professions available to women?
(a) Menial professions.
(b) Nursing and education.
(c) Frivolous professions.
(d) There are none worth mentioning.
11. What kind of governing can parents tend to, according to Chapter 10?
(a) Loving.
(b) Balanced.
(c) Tyrannical.
(d) Non-existent.
12. What often happens to boys who attend religious schools?
(a) They avoid worship services.
(b) They join the clergy.
(c) They have trouble finding wives.
(d) They are unable to function outside of the church.
13. What does Wollstonecraft doubt about chastity?
(a) That it is a virtue unto itself.
(b) That it actually produces modesty.
(c) That anyone is ever truly chaste.
(d) That there is anything more than chastity.
14. What does Wollstonecraft say about modest men?
(a) They are passionate.
(b) They are steady.
(c) They are timid.
(d) They are presumptuous.
15. According to the fourth section of Chapter 13, what is more commonly found in the male world than the female world?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Rivalry.
(d) Mutual respect.
Short Answer Questions
1. From whom do women want respect, according to Wollstonecraft and Rousseau?
2. What parents are able to extort a great deal of respect from their children?
3. What kind of mothers do meek wives make?
4. What does Wollstonecraft say would be one measure of success for her educational system?
5. What does section three of Chapter 13 address?
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