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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 is the source of reason?

2. According to Wollstonecraft, to what might the questions she asks lead?

3. What do kings naturally desire?

4. Why are the women whom Wollstonecraft knows miserable?

5. According to Wollstonecraft, what would fulfill a woman's life task?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Wollstonecraft say she is pessimistic about in the Introduction? What effect does she see as a result?

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

3. What does Wollstonecraft say she is going to start with in Chapter 1?

4. What would be the result of the revolution Wollstonecraft wants to happen?

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

6. What justification do men use for the inferiority of women that Wollstonecraft compares to tyrannical rulers?

7. How do instructional books written by men treat women?

8. Why does Wollstonecraft not address every writer who has presented his views on subjugating women?

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Wollstonecraft's view of women with Rousseau's view of women. How are they similar? How are they different? How does Wollstonecraft react to Rousseau's view of women?

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