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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 author does Wollstonecraft speak the most highly of in Chapter 5?

2. What does woman's inferior strength keep them from attaining?

3. What makes Rousseau think women should be weaker and more passive than men?

4. What clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?

5. Who argues that man is a solitary animal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Rousseau's views on women, according to Chapter 5?

2. What does Wollstonecraft say about women's first impressions in Chapter 6?

3. Why does Wollstonecraft ask for forgiveness in her Introduction?

4. What was clouded reason? What led to reason being clouded?

5. What does Jean-Jacques Rousseau argue about the nature of man?

6. How do men attain regal power? How do their subjects react?

7. What does Wollstonecraft say is the importance of individual education in Chapter 2? How must it be supplemented?

8. How are women made weak, according to the beginning of Chapter 4?

9. What argument does Wollstonecraft give at the beginning of Chapter 2 to justify women's pursuit and attainment of virtue?

10. What error do men make in their view of education?

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

Compare and contrast Wollstonecraft's educational plan with education today. What elements of Wollstonecraft's plan can be seen in today's educational system? What aspects are not present?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Wollstonecraft's plan to improve education as it is described in Chapter 11. Explain the education she has planned for each age group. Why does she make this proposal for an education system?

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