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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 clouds reason, according to Wollstonecraft?

2. What should men and women attain in the same way?

3. What is the name of the character from Emilie Wollstonecraft criticizes in Chapter 5?

4. How are women like the rich?

5. What causes women to be either fine ladies or effective housewives?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the relationship between education and parenting in the 18th century. Why is education important for parenting? What affect does women's poor education have on their role as a mother?

Essay Topic 2

Define irony. What are the three types of irony used in literature? Identify at least one use of irony in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and identify what type of irony it is. Is this an effective use of irony? Why or why not?

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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