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

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

3. From where does a lot of the misery of the world stem?
(a) Lack of reason.
(b) Negligence of children.
(c) Parental negligence.
(d) Immorality.

4. What does Wollstonecraft say should be the focus of public education?
(a) Providing a religious foundation for children.
(b) Keeping children off the streets during the day.
(c) Preparing children to function in the world.
(d) Forming citizens.

5. What kind of mothers do meek wives make?
(a) Caring.
(b) Aggressive.
(c) Foolish.
(d) Unnatural.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do women rarely exhibit, according to Wollstonecraft?

2. What is the most important aspect in attaining rank and class, according to Chapter 9?

3. What does Wollstonecraft address in Chapter 7?

4. What do women not indulge in, according to Chapter 8?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems does Wollstonecraft see with current methods of education in her society? What solution does she offer?

2. How can women bring out modesty from chastity?

3. How do women treat their children, according to Wollstonecraft? Why?

4. Explain how parents govern their children, according to the beginning of Chapter 10?

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

6. What does Wollstonecraft say religion must be based on in the first section of Chapter 13?

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

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

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

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

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