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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the title of Chapter 10 refer?
(a) Affection given to parents by their children.
(b) Affection parents give their children.
(c) Affection given to parents by other parents.
(d) Affection given to parents by society.

2. What does Wollstonecraft doubt about chastity?
(a) That there is anything more than chastity.
(b) That it is a virtue unto itself.
(c) That anyone is ever truly chaste.
(d) That it actually produces modesty.

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

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

5. What virtue does Wollstonecraft describe as a kind of self-abasement?
(a) Faith.
(b) Reason.
(c) Vanity.
(d) Humility.

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

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

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

9. What types of people does Wollstonecraft criticize in the first section of Chapter 13?
(a) Men.
(b) Those who predict the future with astrology.
(c) Women who teach other women to remain oppressed.
(d) Novelists.

10. From where do the duties of women come, according to Chapter 11?
(a) The desire to please.
(b) A sense of duty.
(c) A sense of propriety.
(d) A woman's father.

11. What can be harmful to the growth of parental affection, according to Chapter 10?
(a) Governesses
(b) Boarding school.
(c) Live-in servants.
(d) The use of a nurse.

12. What does Wollstonecraft think of women being closed up in convents and boarding schools?
(a) She supports it.
(b) She sees the benefits, but it is risky.
(c) Policies need to be reformed.
(d) She objects.

13. What do meek wives desire, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) Their children's love.
(b) The respect of their peers.
(c) Their husband's approval.
(d) Confidence.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wollstonecraft say modesty is NOT, according to Chapter 7?

2. What does Wollstonecraft say would be one measure of success for her educational system?

3. What subject do women shy away from reading?

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

5. To what would women progress if they were given the same fundamental rights and freedoms as men?

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