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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What subject do women shy away from reading?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Sociology.
(c) History.
(d) Theology.

3. How are the husbands of meek wives portrayed?
(a) As guides.
(b) As wizards.
(c) As scarecrows.
(d) As lions.

4. Where does Wollstonecraft say there is little true heroism found anymore?
(a) The community.
(b) Parliament.
(c) The private sector.
(d) The military.

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

6. What does Wollstonecraft say about education at the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) It should be a national concern.
(b) It should be completely secular.
(c) It should be strictly religious.
(d) It should be modeled after monasteries.

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

8. How does Wollstonecraft say women should wash and dress, regardless of rank?
(a) In groups.
(b) Alone.
(c) Chastely.
(d) In pairs.

9. What does Wollstonecraft hope to see as a result of this education for women?
(a) True dignity.
(b) Early marriages.
(c) Chastity.
(d) Stronger men.

10. What women develop an over-fondness for dress?
(a) The uneducated.
(b) Servants.
(c) Savages as well as civilized women.
(d) Rich women.

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

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

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

14. What makes the charlatans addressed in the first section of Chapter 13 worse, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) When they claim to be Christians.
(b) When they return to the same woman again and again.
(c) When they disappear without a trace, taking women's money with them.
(d) When they insist that they are not charlatans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be harmful to the growth of parental affection, according to Chapter 10?

2. How can children be encouraged to think on their own?

3. What do women rarely exhibit, according to Wollstonecraft?

4. What does a woman need to be a good mother?

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

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