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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 forms, to some degree, man's character?
2. What profession is “incompatible with freedom?”
3. What kind of men easily appeal to women?
4. Over whom doesWollstonecraft want women to have power?
5. In what state are women kept?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Wollstonecraft say about love in Chapter 4? What does she say is better than love?
2. What does Wollstonecraft say she is pessimistic about in the Introduction? What effect does she see as a result?
3. Why does Wollstonecraft not address every writer who has presented his views on subjugating women?
4. What does Wollstonecraft say about women's first impressions in Chapter 6?
5. What does Wollstonecraft say is the importance of individual education in Chapter 2? How must it be supplemented?
6. How do men attain regal power? How do their subjects react?
7. Explain Wollstonecraft's objection to the character of Sophia in Rousseau's Emilie.
8. Why does Wollstonecraft ask for forgiveness in her Introduction?
9. What are Rousseau's views on women, according to Chapter 5?
10. What does Jean-Jacques Rousseau argue about the nature of man?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Wollstonecraft's thoughts on parenting. How are children parented in Wollstonecraft's society? What does Wollstonecraft think of this? What changes does Wollstonecraft want to see in the parenting paradigm?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Mary Wollstonecraft. How did her upbringing help shape her philosophy about the inequality of men and women? What influence did she have on feminist philosophy?
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