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

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

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

4. Where does Wollstonecraft say there is little true heroism found anymore?
(a) The community.
(b) The military.
(c) The private sector.
(d) Parliament.

5. Parents who are blindly obeyed are usually obeyed out of _____.
(a) Fear.
(b) Respect.
(c) Love.
(d) Weakness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are women taught to develop from a very early age?

2. What can happen when mothers exhibit a lack of reason?

3. What kind of governing can parents tend to, according to Chapter 10?

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

5. What often happens to boys who attend religious schools?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the focus of virtue for women, according to Wollstonecraft? How can women behave if they attain that virtue?

4. Explain what happens to children who are raised by parents who work from the heart and an understanding of the child?

5. How does Wollstonecraft order women's duties in society?

6. Why is morality undermined in women's lives, according to Wollstonecraft?

7. Give two of Wollstonecraft’s concluding remarks.

8. How do women learn to behave as wives, according to Chapter 11?

9. What kind of education does Wollstonecraft support at the beginning of Chapter 12? Why?

10. What is modesty? Why is it important, according to Wollstonecraft?

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