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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason is there to obey a parent only because they are a parent?
(a) In order to submit to society's norms.
(b) There is no reason.
(c) In order to have financial support.
(d) Out of a sense of duty.

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

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

4. What does Wollstonecraft think about the old principles and ways of doing things in regards to parenting?
(a) She hates them.
(b) She supports them.
(c) She feels the need to do more research before forming an opinion.
(d) She disagrees, but sees the value.

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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) Filial duty.
(b) Duty to parents.
(c) Reciprocal duty.
(d) Familial duty.

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

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

13. At what age does Wollstonecraft think children should be separated between trade schools and schools that teach humanities?
(a) Ten.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Nine.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From where do the duties of women come, according to Chapter 11?

3. Where do some women who do not love their husbands fix their attention?

4. What causes women to become selfish, according to the fourth section of Chapter 13?

5. What does Wollstonecraft address in the fifth section of Chapter 13?

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