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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. To whom does Wollstonecraft want to appeal?

3. To what does Wollstonecraft compare women's education?

4. What gives man preeminence over creatures?

5. How are women like the rich?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Wollstonecraft say about love in Chapter 4? What does she say is better than love?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Wollstonecraft's thoughts on parenting. How are children parented in Wollstonecraft's society? What does Wollstonecraft think of this? What changes does Wollstonecraft want to see in the parenting paradigm?

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

Explain the purpose of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. What does Wollstonecraft want to accomplish by writing it? What does she want the reader to take away from it? Is it successful? Why or why not?

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