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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 type of women delight in using whatever small power they have?

2. What does a man who exercises absolute power lose?

3. What is important to manners?

4. Whose letters does Wollstonecraft address at the end of Chapter 5?

5. In what state are women kept?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What irony does Wollstonecraft present in Chapter 2 in men's view of women? What kind of irony is this?

3. What is included in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman before the first chapter?

4. Why do “rakes” find it easy to appeal to women?

5. What kind of education do women have, according to the Introduction? What kind of women does this produce?

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

7. Explain what Wollstonecraft says about people of genius in Chapter 3.

8. How does Wollstonecraft compare women to the rich?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Rousseau's perspective of women as revealed in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Does this agree with Wollstonecraft's perspective? Why or why not? What does Wollstonecraft think of Rousseau? Why?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Explain the role of religion in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. What does this reveal about Wollstonecraft's society? What does this reveal about Wollstonecraft herself? How does religion relate to the overall points Wollstonecraft makes about women?

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