PT127.S4.P4.Q25

PrepTest 127 - Section 4 - Passage 4 - Question 25

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During most of the nineteenth century, many French women continued to be educated according to models long established by custom and religious tradition. ███

Intro topic · Education of French women during 1800s
Based on custom and religion for most of 1800s.
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Other person's perspective · Failure to reform education after French Revolution (1789) was "missed opportunity"
Nondiscriminatory system not established until 1880s.
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Spotlight · There were proposals for reform after French Revolution
Two in particular were egalitarian.
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First proposal · Called for education for everyone
Proposed offering education to both men and women, opening public schools throughout country, hiring both men and women teachers.
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Limit on first proposal · Women still treated differently
Girls leave school at 8 years old for domestic training.
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Second proposal · Called for equal education and coed schools
Coed schools supposed to protect against gender roles from religion.
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Limit on second proposal · Women still treated differently
Women's roles still defined by family and motherhood.
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Lesson · Obstacles to equal education
The failure and limits of the two proposals shows the cultural and political obstacles after the French Revolution.
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Impact of the two proposals · Influenced educational reform in 1880s
Egalitarian reforms passed in 1880s used the earlier proposals to demonstrate that the new laws were rooted in tradition.
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25.

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a

everyone should both █████ ███ █████

The second proposal didn’t call for everyone to teach.

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b

males and females ██████ ██ ██ ███ ████ ███████

The passage says that the second proposal was distinctive because it called for coeducational schools.

91%
c

education should involve ████████ ████████

We don’t know that the second proposal called for “lifelong” learning.

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d

religious schools should ██ █████████

We don’t know that the second proposal called for abolishing religious schools. Also, the passage doesn’t say that calling for abolishment of religious schools was distinctive about the second proposal.

2%
e

education for girls ██████ ██ ████ ██████ ███ ███████

The author doesn’t say that this aspect of the second proposal was distinctive.

2%

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