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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. In what state are women kept?

2. Why do women's opinions waver?

3. What author does Wollstonecraft speak the most highly of in Chapter 5?

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

5. How should education be supplemented?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Wollstonecraft compare women to the rich?

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

3. Why does Wollstonecraft not blame women for falling for a rake?

4. What does Wollstonecraft say about Rousseau's view of religion for women?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Wollstonecraft say about allowing boys and girls to play together?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of class in the treatment of women according to Wollstonecraft. What classes of women are treated the worst? What classes of women are treated the best? Why are there differences in how women are treated based on class?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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