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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 given to parents by other parents.
(b) Affection parents give their children.
(c) Affection given to parents by their children.
(d) Affection given to parents by society.

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

3. What types of people does Wollstonecraft criticize in the first section of Chapter 13?
(a) Novelists.
(b) Women who teach other women to remain oppressed.
(c) Those who predict the future with astrology.
(d) Men.

4. According to Wollstonecraft, what is the only virtue given attention?
(a) Reason.
(b) Patience.
(c) Humility.
(d) Chastity.

5. What is the most important aspect in attaining rank and class, according to Chapter 9?
(a) Geography.
(b) Education.
(c) Birthright.
(d) Property.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wollstonecraft see as a solution to the disadvantages of both private and public schools?

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

3. What reason is there to obey a parent only because they are a parent?

4. What does Wollstonecraft discuss the effects of in Chapter 9?

5. What does Wollstonecraft say about humble men?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Wollstonecraft believe education should start?

2. How does Wollstonecraft order women's duties in society?

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

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

5. What is the focus of Chapter 9?

6. What leads women to the romantic, sentimental twists of the mind, according to the second section of Chapter 13? What solution does Wollstonecraft offer?

7. How do women treat their children, according to Wollstonecraft? Why?

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

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

10. How does Wollstonecraft explain modesty?

(see the answer keys)

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