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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is separated from morality, according to Chapter 9?
(a) Education.
(b) Reason.
(c) Chastity.
(d) Religion.

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

4. How do women whose duties come from a sense of propriety often behave in their own marriages?
(a) As companions.
(b) As tyrants.
(c) As servants.
(d) As children.

5. What does Wollstonecraft conclude would happen if women were given more freedom?
(a) They would be better citizens.
(b) Little would change.
(c) They would be better wives.
(d) They would be better mothers.

6. What does Wollstonecraft conclude about women who are the most modest?
(a) They are the least rational.
(b) They have improved their minds the most.
(c) They are the most rational.
(d) They have improved their minds the least.

7. To what would women progress if they were given the same fundamental rights and freedoms as men?
(a) Perfection.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Ideal motherhood.
(d) Chastity.

8. To where are women confined, according to Chapter 9?
(a) The church and the home.
(b) Their minds.
(c) Their private sphere.
(d) Their town.

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

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

11. What does parental affection lead to?
(a) Cooperation.
(b) Rational adults.
(c) Chastity.
(d) Filial duty.

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

13. What do men think of chastity?
(a) They see it as a duty.
(b) They despise it.
(c) They are indifferent toward it.
(d) They prize it.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What do women think of chastity?

3. What does Wollstonecraft address in Chapter 7?

4. Who must work to cultivate chastity, modesty, and public spirit, according to Wollstonecraft?

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

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