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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. How can children be encouraged to think on their own?
(a) By educating them together.
(b) By teaching them at home.
(c) By allowing them to shape their own education.
(d) By educating them with adults.
2. What is a woman’s first duty?
(a) As a mother.
(b) As a rational being.
(c) As a wife.
(d) As a citizen.
3. What does Wollstonecraft hope to see as a result of this education for women?
(a) Chastity.
(b) True dignity.
(c) Early marriages.
(d) Stronger men.
4. What kind of governing can parents tend to, according to Chapter 10?
(a) Tyrannical.
(b) Balanced.
(c) Loving.
(d) Non-existent.
5. What does Wollstonecraft see as a solution to the disadvantages of both private and public schools?
(a) Blend them.
(b) Eliminate all systems and restart from scratch.
(c) Secularize them.
(d) Root them in religion.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do many women not exercise, according to Wollstonecraft?
2. From where does a lot of the misery of the world stem?
3. What are the only professions available to women?
4. Where do some women who do not love their husbands fix their attention?
5. Where should children live while they are in school?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the reciprocal duty Wollstonecraft explains in Chapter 11.
2. Why does Wollstonecraft advocate national schools, according to the end of Chapter 12?
3. What does Wollstonecraft say about meek mothers?
4. Explain what happens to children who are raised by parents who work from the heart and an understanding of the child?
5. How does society expect men and women to keep their passions in check?
6. What does Wollstonecraft say happens to boys who attend religious schools?
7. What is modesty? Why is it important, according to Wollstonecraft?
8. What does Wollstonecraft say about sex in Chapter 8?
9. What justification does Wollstonecraft give in Chapter 10 for strengthening women's understanding?
10. What leads women to the romantic, sentimental twists of the mind, according to the second section of Chapter 13? What solution does Wollstonecraft offer?
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