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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does virtue need to develop, according to Wollstonecraft?

2. What does Wollstonecraft address in Chapter 7?

3. Who must work to cultivate chastity, modesty, and public spirit, according to Wollstonecraft?

4. What does Wollstonecraft say about modest men?

5. What does Wollstonecraft doubt about chastity?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What makes women careless or unnatural mothers, according to Wollstonecraft?

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

4. What does Wollstonecraft say happens to boys who attend religious schools?

5. How do the duties of women contribute to their behavior in marriages?

6. Why does Wollstonecraft think it is worse for a married woman than a single woman to have an affair?

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

8. Where does Wollstonecraft believe education should start?

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

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

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