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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What types of people does Wollstonecraft criticize in the first section of Chapter 13?
(a) Men.
(b) Novelists.
(c) Women who teach other women to remain oppressed.
(d) Those who predict the future with astrology.

5. From whom do women want respect, according to Wollstonecraft and Rousseau?
(a) The world.
(b) Other women.
(c) God.
(d) their fathers.

6. Parents who are blindly obeyed are usually obeyed out of _____.
(a) Love.
(b) Weakness.
(c) Respect.
(d) Fear.

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

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

9. What can be harmful to the growth of parental affection, according to Chapter 10?
(a) Live-in servants.
(b) Boarding school.
(c) The use of a nurse.
(d) Governesses

10. Who must work to cultivate chastity, modesty, and public spirit, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) All mankind.
(b) Men.
(c) Women.
(d) Educators.

11. What can happen when mothers exhibit a lack of reason?
(a) They can become careless or unnatural mothers.
(b) They do not want to be mothers.
(c) They are unable to be chaste women.
(d) They can give in to the whims of their family.

12. Into how many sections is Chapter 13 divided?
(a) Four.
(b) Ten.
(c) Seven.
(d) Six.

13. What reason is there to obey a parent only because they are a parent?
(a) There is no reason.
(b) Out of a sense of duty.
(c) In order to have financial support.
(d) In order to submit to society's norms.

14. According to the fourth section of Chapter 13, what is more commonly found in the male world than the female world?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Rivalry.
(d) Mutual respect.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject do women shy away from reading?

2. To what does the title of Chapter 10 refer?

3. In what educational situation do boys become slovenly?

4. What is woman's only duty to fulfill?

5. What causes women to become selfish, according to the fourth section of Chapter 13?

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