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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 only pursuit women are taught to have?

2. What gives man preeminence over creatures?

3. How do Rousseau and Dr. Gregory make women appear?

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

5. Who complains about the silliness of women?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Wollstonecraft ask for forgiveness in her Introduction?

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

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

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

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

7. Explain Wollstonecraft's objection to the character of Sophia in Rousseau's Emilie.

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

9. What does Wollstonecraft say about Rousseau's view of women's education?

10. How does Wollstonecraft compare women to the rich?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Wollstonecraft's plan to improve education as it is described in Chapter 11. Explain the education she has planned for each age group. Why does she make this proposal for an education system?

Essay Topic 2

Define virtue. Why should people attain virtue? How does Wollstonecraft say men and women attain virtue? What does this reveal about Wollstonecraft's society? Why does she disagree with this? How does Wollstonecraft want men and women to attain virtue?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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