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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Wollstonecraft say modesty is NOT, according to Chapter 7?
(a) A mean.
(b) A quality.
(c) Attainable.
(d) A virtue.

3. What does Wollstonecraft say about modest men?
(a) They are presumptuous.
(b) They are steady.
(c) They are passionate.
(d) They are timid.

4. What do women not indulge in, according to Chapter 8?
(a) Platitudes.
(b) Niceties.
(c) Truths.
(d) Manners.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a woman’s first duty?

2. What is the best educational situation, according to Wollstonecraft?

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

4. What causes mothers to run into the extremes in their parenting?

5. From where should women get advice about what to read, according to Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Wollstonecraft say about meek mothers?

2. How can women bring out modesty from chastity?

3. How does Wollstonecraft explain modesty?

4. What leads women to the romantic, sentimental twists of the mind, according to the second section of Chapter 13? What solution does Wollstonecraft offer?

5. What justification does Wollstonecraft give in Chapter 10 for strengthening women's understanding?

6. What is the role of education, according to the fifth section of Chapter 13? How do silly mothers damage children?

7. How does society expect men and women to keep their passions in check?

8. What women are most respected in society? Why?

9. Why does Wollstonecraft advocate national schools, according to the end of Chapter 12?

10. Give two of Wollstonecraft’s concluding remarks.

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