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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 do women not indulge in, according to Chapter 8?
(a) Niceties.
(b) Truths.
(c) Platitudes.
(d) Manners.
2. According to the fourth section of Chapter 13, what is more commonly found in the male world than the female world?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Rivalry.
(c) Mutual respect.
(d) Ignorance.
3. What do men think of chastity?
(a) They prize it.
(b) They are indifferent toward it.
(c) They despise it.
(d) They see it as a duty.
4. Who wrote Some Thoughts Concerning Education?
(a) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
(b) Henry David Thoreau.
(c) Mary Wollstonecraft.
(d) John Locke.
5. From where do the duties of women come, according to Chapter 11?
(a) A woman's father.
(b) A sense of duty.
(c) A sense of propriety.
(d) The desire to please.
Short Answer Questions
1. To what would women progress if they were given the same fundamental rights and freedoms as men?
2. What do women rarely exhibit, according to Wollstonecraft?
3. According to Wollstonecraft, what is the only virtue given attention?
4. What often happens to boys who attend religious schools?
5. What does Wollstonecraft conclude would happen if women were given more freedom?
Short Essay Questions
1. Give two of Wollstonecraft’s concluding remarks.
2. How does society expect men and women to keep their passions in check?
3. What is modesty? Why is it important, according to Wollstonecraft?
4. What does Wollstonecraft say about sex in Chapter 8?
5. What is the focus of virtue for women, according to Wollstonecraft? How can women behave if they attain that virtue?
6. Explain how parents govern their children, according to the beginning of Chapter 10?
7. Why does Wollstonecraft advocate national schools, according to the end of Chapter 12?
8. What does Wollstonecraft say happens to boys who attend religious schools?
9. What problems does Wollstonecraft see with current methods of education in her society? What solution does she offer?
10. Why does Wollstonecraft think it is worse for a married woman than a single woman to have an affair?
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