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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can children be encouraged to think on their own?
(a) By educating them together.
(b) By educating them with adults.
(c) By allowing them to shape their own education.
(d) By teaching them at home.

2. What is a woman’s first duty?
(a) As a rational being.
(b) As a mother.
(c) As a wife.
(d) As a citizen.

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

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

5. What does Wollstonecraft address in Chapter 7?
(a) Modesty.
(b) Decency.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Courting.

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

7. What does section three of Chapter 13 address?
(a) Child rearing.
(b) Men's fondness for women's outward appearance.
(c) Women's fondness for their outward appearance.
(d) Women's fondness for poetry.

8. In what educational situation do children not learn ingenuity of thought?
(a) Religious schools.
(b) Country day schools.
(c) Individual education.
(d) Boarding schools.

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

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

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

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

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

14. What can a woman's behavior and reputation undermine, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Her rationality.
(b) Her family's morality.
(c) Her husband's morality.
(d) Her morality.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do meek wives desire, according to Wollstonecraft?

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

4. What does Wollstonecraft say about vain men?

5. What are the only professions available to women?

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