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In eighteenth-century France and England, re-
formers rallied around egalitarian ideals, but few
reformers advocated higher education for women.
Although the public decried women’s lack of educa-
tion, it did not encourage learning for its own sake for
women. In spite of the general prejudice against
learned women, there was one place where women
could exhibit their erudition: the literary salon. Many
writers have defined the woman’s role in the salon as
that of an intelligent hostess, but the salon had more
than a social function for women. It was an informal
university, too, where women exchanged ideas with
educated persons, read their own works and heard
those of others, and received and gave criticism.
In the 1750’s, when salons were firmly established
in France, some English women, who called
themselves “Bluestocking,” followed the example of
the salonnieres (French salon hostesses) and formed
their own salons. Most Bluestockings did not wish to
mirror the salonnieres; they simply desired to adapt a
proven formula to their own purpose—the elevation
of women’s status through moral and intellectual
training. Differences in social orientation and back-
ground can account perhaps for differences in the
nature of French and English salons. The French
salon incorporated aristocratic attitudes that exalted
courtly pleasure and emphasized artistic accomplish-
ments. The English Bluestockings, originating from a
more modest background, emphasized learning and
work over pleasure. Accustomed to the regimented life
of court circles, salonnieres tended toward formality
in their salons. The English women, though somewhat
puritanical, were more casual in their approach.
At first, the Bluestockings did imitate the
salonnieres by including men in their circles. However,
as they gained cohesion, the Bluestockings came to
regard themselves as a women’s group and to possess
a sense of female solidarity lacking in the salonnieres,
who remained isolated from one another by the
primacy each held in her own salon. In an atmosphere
of mutual support, the Bluestockings went beyond the
salon experience. They traveled, studied, worked,
wrote for publication, and by their activities chal-
lenged the stereotype of the passive woman. Although
the salonnieres were aware of sexual inequality, the
narrow boundaries of their world kept their intel-
lectual pursuits within conventional limits. Many
salonnieres, in fact, camouflaged their nontraditional
activities behind the role of hostess and deferred to
men in public.
Though the Bluestockings were trailblazers when
compared with the salonnieres, they were not femi-
nists. They were too traditional, too hemmed in by
their generation to demand social and political rights.
Nonetheless, in their desire for education, their will-
ingness to go beyond the confines of the salon in
pursuing their interests, and their championing of
unity among women, the Bluestockings began the
process of questioning women’s role in society.
17. Which of the following best states the central
idea of the passage?
(A) The establishment of literary salons was a
response to reformers’ demands for social
rights for women.
(B) Literary salons were originally intended to
be a meeting ground for intellectuals of
both sexes, but eventually became social
gatherings with little educational value.
(C) In England, as in France, the general pre-
judice against higher education for women
limited women’s function in literary
salons to a primarily social one.
(D) The literary salons provided a sounding
board for French and English women who
called for access to all the educa-
tional institutions in their societies on an
equal basis with men.
(E) For women, who did not have access to
higher education as men did, literary
salons provided an alternate route to
learning and a challenge to some of
society’s basic assumptions about
women.
18. According to the passage, a significant distinc-
tion between the salonnieres and Bluestockings
was in the way each group regarded which of the
following?
(A) The value of acquiring knowledge
(B) The role of pleasure in the activities of the
literary salon
(C) The desirability of a complete break with
societal traditions
(D) The inclusion of women of different back-
grounds in the salons
(E) The attainment of full social and political
equality with men
19. The author refers to differences in social back-
ground between salonnieres and Bluestockings
in order to do which of the following?
(A) Criticize the view that their choices of
activities were significantly influenced by
male salon members
(B) Discuss the reasons why literary salons in
France were established before those in
England
(C) Question the importance of the
Bluestockings in shaping public attitudes
toward educated women
(D) Refute the argument that the French salons
had little influence over the direction the
English salons took
(E) Explain the differences in atmosphere and
style in their salons
20. Which of the following statements is most
compatible with the principles of the salonnieres
as described in the passage?
(A) Women should aspire to be not only
educated but independent as well.
(B) The duty of the educated women is to
provide an active political model for less
educated women.
(C) Devotion to pleasure and art is justified in
itself.
(D) Substance, rather than form, is the most
important consideration in holding a
literary salon.
(E) Men should be excluded from groups of
women’s rights supporters.
21. The passage suggests that the Bluestockings
might have had a more significant impact on
society if it had not been for which of the
following?
(A) Competitiveness among their salons
(B) Their emphasis on individualism
(C) The limited scope of their activities
(D) Their acceptance of the French salon as a
model for their own salons
(E) Their unwillingness to defy aggressively the
conventions of their age
22. Which of the following could best be considered
a twentieth-century counterpart of an eighteenth
century literary salon as it is described in the
passage?
(A) A social sorority
(B) A community center
(C) A lecture course on art
(D) A humanities study group
(E) An association of moral reformers
23. To an assertion that Bluestockings were fem-
inists, the author would most probably respond
with which of the following?
(A) Admitted uncertainty
(B) Qualified disagreement
(C) Unquestioning approval
(D) Complete indifference
(E) Strong disparagement
24. Which of the following titles best describes the
content of the passage?
(A) Eighteenth-Century Egalitarianism
(B) Feminists of the Eighteenth Century
(C) Eighteenth-Century Precursors of Feminism
(D) Intellectual Life in the Eighteenth Century
(E) Female Education Reform in the Eighteenth
Century
When the same parameters and quantitative theory
are used to analyze both termite colonies and troops
of rhesus macaques, we will have a unified science of
sociobiology. Can this ever really happen? As my own
studies have advanced, I have been increasingly im-
pressed with the functional similarities between insect
and vertebrate societies and less so with the structural
differences that seem, at first glance, to constitute such
an immense gulf between them. Consider for a moment
termites and macaques. Both form cooperative groups
that occupy territories. In both kinds of society there
is a well-marked division of labor. Members of both
groups communicate to each other hunger, alarm,
hostility, caste status or rank, and reproductive status.
From the specialist’s point of view, this comparison
may at first seem facile—or worse. But it is out of
such deliberate oversimplification that the beginnings
of a general theory are made.
25. Which of the following best summarizes the
author’s main point?
(A) Oversimplified comparisons of animal
societies could diminish the likelihood of
developing a unified science of
sociobiology.
(B) Understanding the ways in which animals as
different as termites and rhesus macaques
resemble each other requires train in
both biology and sociology.
(C) Most animals organize themselves into
societies that exhibit patterns of group
behavior similar to those of human
societies.
(D) Animals as different as termites and rhesus
macaques follow certain similar and
predictable patterns of behavior.
(E) A study of the similarities between insect
and vertebrate societies could provide the
basis for a unified science of sociobiology.
26. The author’s attitude toward the possibility of a
unified theory in sociobiology is best described
as which of the following?
(A) Guarded optimism
(B) Unqualified enthusiasm
(C) Objective indifference
(D) Resignation (E) Dissatisfaction
27. In discussing insect and vertebrate societies, the
author suggests which of the following?
(A) A distinguishing characteristic of most
insect and vertebrate societies is a well-
marked division of labor.
(B) The caste structure of insect societies is
similar to that of vertebrate societies.
(C) Most insect and vertebrate societies form
cooperative groups in order to occupy
territory.
(D) The means of communication among
members of insect societies is similar to that
among members of vertebrate societies.
(E) There are significant structural differences
between insect and vertebrate societies. |
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