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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does woman's inferior strength keep them from attaining?
2. What is the business of a woman's life?
3. How should education be supplemented?
4. What is the only thing women are taught to be proud of?
5. To whom does Wollstonecraft want to appeal?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do “rakes” find it easy to appeal to women?
2. What kind of education do women have, according to the Introduction? What kind of women does this produce?
3. Why does Wollstonecraft ask for forgiveness in her Introduction?
4. What was clouded reason? What led to reason being clouded?
5. How does Wollstonecraft compare women to the rich?
6. What irony does Wollstonecraft present in Chapter 2 in men's view of women? What kind of irony is this?
7. How are women made weak, according to the beginning of Chapter 4?
8. What does Wollstonecraft say she is going to start with in Chapter 1?
9. What does Wollstonecraft say about women's first impressions in Chapter 6?
10. What does Wollstonecraft say about Rousseau's view of religion for women?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Wollstonecraft's thoughts on the duties of children to their parents. What duties do children have toward their parents in Wollstonecraft's society? What does Wollstonecraft think of this? What changes does Wollstonecraft want to see in children's duties to their parents?
Essay Topic 2
Define theme. Identify at least one theme addressed in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. How does Wollstonecraft address this theme? Is it effective? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Explain the purpose of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. What does Wollstonecraft want to accomplish by writing it? What does she want the reader to take away from it? Is it successful? Why or why not?
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