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

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

3. What causes mothers to run into the extremes in their parenting?
(a) Lack of reason.
(b) Peer pressure.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) The whims of their husbands.

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

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

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

7. What does virtue need to develop, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Liberty.
(b) Companionship.
(c) Reason.
(d) Patience.

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

9. What do women not indulge in, according to Chapter 8?
(a) Niceties.
(b) Truths.
(c) Manners.
(d) Platitudes.

10. What happens to civilization as a result of systems of rank?
(a) It becomes a curse.
(b) It becomes useless.
(c) It strengthens.
(d) It deteriorates.

11. In what educational situation do boys become slovenly?
(a) Individual education.
(b) Boarding schools.
(c) Country day schools.
(d) Religious schools.

12. What does Wollstonecraft say modesty is NOT, according to Chapter 7?
(a) Attainable.
(b) A mean.
(c) A virtue.
(d) A quality.

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 does a woman need to be a good mother?
(a) Financial security.
(b) Independence of the mind.
(c) The freedom to do as she wishes.
(d) A kind husband.

15. What takes the place of woman's senses as her character is formed?
(a) Intellectual pursuits.
(b) The quest for beauty.
(c) Their passions.
(d) Social niceties.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does a lot of the misery of the world stem?

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

3. What does Wollstonecraft say should be the focus of public education?

4. What is the most important aspect in attaining rank and class, according to Chapter 9?

5. What does Wollstonecraft doubt about chastity?

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