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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 business of a woman's life?
2. Why does Wollstonecraft not want to address every author who subjugates women?
3. What should men and women attain in the same way?
4. What does woman's inferior strength keep them from attaining?
5. What type of people ignores their health in pursuit of their calling?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain Wollstonecraft's objection to the character of Sophia in Rousseau's Emilie.
2. What does Wollstonecraft say she is pessimistic about in the Introduction? What effect does she see as a result?
3. Why does Wollstonecraft ask for forgiveness in her Introduction?
4. What does Wollstonecraft say about Rousseau's view of religion for women?
5. What are Rousseau's views on women, according to Chapter 5?
6. Explain what Wollstonecraft says about people of genius in Chapter 3.
7. Why does Wollstonecraft not blame women for falling for a rake?
8. How do instructional books written by men treat women?
9. What does Wollstonecraft say about Rousseau's view of women's education?
10. What was clouded reason? What led to reason being clouded?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the follies Wollstonecraft addresses in Chapter 13 of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. What are the follies she addresses? Why are they harmful to women? What, if any, solutions does she offer to combat them?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Explain the revolution Wollstonecraft calls for in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. What does she want to happen? Who would lead the revolution? Why is it necessary?
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