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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 can happen if a woman loves her children only out of a sense of duty or because they are her own children?
(a) Nothing harmful.
(b) Problems can arise.
(c) The children can take on the role of the parents.
(d) Fathers can take on the role of the mother.

2. How can children be encouraged to think on their own?
(a) By educating them with adults.
(b) By allowing them to shape their own education.
(c) By teaching them at home.
(d) By educating them together.

3. What does parental affection lead to?
(a) Cooperation.
(b) Rational adults.
(c) Filial duty.
(d) Chastity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who can get away with falling into sexual immorality?

3. What does Wollstonecraft say children cannot be taught too early?

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

5. Where should children live while they are in school?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Wollstonecraft believe education should start?

3. What does Wollstonecraft say about sex in Chapter 8?

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

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

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

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

8. What is the focus of Chapter 9?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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