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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 say would be one measure of success for her educational system?
(a) Compassion for children.
(b) Compassion for animals.
(c) The ability to hold intellectual conversations.
(d) The pursuit of professions.

2. Where do some women who do not love their husbands fix their attention?
(a) On themselves.
(b) Their husbands.
(c) Their social obligations.
(d) Their children.

3. Who can get away with falling into sexual immorality?
(a) Single women.
(b) Widows.
(c) Married women.
(d) No one.

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

5. What does Wollstonecraft doubt about chastity?
(a) That there is anything more than chastity.
(b) That it actually produces modesty.
(c) That it is a virtue unto itself.
(d) That anyone is ever truly chaste.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does character formation occur?

2. What does Wollstonecraft say should be the focus of public education?

3. To what does the title of Chapter 10 refer?

4. What is woman's only duty to fulfill?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the focus of Chapter 9?

7. Describe the reciprocal duty Wollstonecraft explains in Chapter 11.

8. What does Wollstonecraft say about meek mothers?

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

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

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