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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where should women get advice about what to read, according to Chapter 13?
(a) Someone they admire.
(b) Their former schoolmasters.
(c) Their husbands or fathers.
(d) Their mothers or sisters.

2. What takes the place of woman's senses as her character is formed?
(a) The quest for beauty.
(b) Social niceties.
(c) Intellectual pursuits.
(d) Their passions.

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

4. From where must a parent work in order to gain the correct type of affection from a child, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) The rod.
(b) The heart.
(c) Society.
(d) The mind.

5. 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.

6. What makes the charlatans addressed in the first section of Chapter 13 worse, according to Wollstonecraft?
(a) When they claim to be Christians.
(b) When they disappear without a trace, taking women's money with them.
(c) When they insist that they are not charlatans.
(d) When they return to the same woman again and again.

7. What debases all mankind, according to Chapter 9?
(a) Religion.
(b) Patriarchy.
(c) Immorality.
(d) Riches.

8. What causes women to become selfish, according to the fourth section of Chapter 13?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Children.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Over-fondness of dress.

9. 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) Reciprocal duty.
(c) Filial duty.
(d) Familial duty.

10. What reason is there to obey a parent only because they are a parent?
(a) In order to have financial support.
(b) Out of a sense of duty.
(c) There is no reason.
(d) In order to submit to society's norms.

11. What are women taught to develop from a very early age?
(a) Artificial behavior.
(b) Proper protocols.
(c) Manners.
(d) Social niceties.

12. What often happens to boys who attend religious schools?
(a) They have trouble finding wives.
(b) They are unable to function outside of the church.
(c) They join the clergy.
(d) They avoid worship services.

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

14. What does Wollstonecraft say women want?
(a) To be ladies.
(b) To be married.
(c) To be equals.
(d) To be mothers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom do women want respect, according to Wollstonecraft and Rousseau?

2. Who wrote Some Thoughts Concerning Education?

3. What virtue does Wollstonecraft describe as a kind of self-abasement?

4. When does character formation occur?

5. What does Wollstonecraft address in the fifth section of Chapter 13?

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