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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 husbands or fathers.
(b) Someone they admire.
(c) Their former schoolmasters.
(d) Their mothers or sisters.

2. What does Wollstonecraft say children cannot be taught too early?
(a) That knowledge is the key to success.
(b) To give affection.
(c) To submit to reason.
(d) Morality.

3. What does Wollstonecraft discuss the effects of in Chapter 9?
(a) Rank and class.
(b) Gender stereotypes.
(c) Society.
(d) Education.

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

5. What debases all mankind, according to Chapter 9?
(a) Religion.
(b) Immorality.
(c) Patriarchy.
(d) Riches.

6. What must women avoid in order to bring modest out of chastity?
(a) Employments that only exercise sensibility.
(b) Employments that do not exercise sensibility.
(c) Fads.
(d) Novels.

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

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

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

10. What are the only professions available to women?
(a) There are none worth mentioning.
(b) Menial professions.
(c) Frivolous professions.
(d) Nursing and education.

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

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

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

14. What can happen if a woman loves her children only out of a sense of duty or because they are her own children?
(a) Fathers can take on the role of the mother.
(b) Problems can arise.
(c) Nothing harmful.
(d) The children can take on the role of the parents.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do women not indulge in, according to Chapter 8?

2. What women develop an over-fondness for dress?

3. How do women whose duties come from a sense of propriety often behave in their own marriages?

4. In what educational situation do boys become slovenly?

5. To where are women confined, according to Chapter 9?

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