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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 profession is “incompatible with freedom?”

2. Wollstonecraft hopes that _____________will forgive her.

3. How does Wollstonecraft think boys and girls should play?

4. What is the true foundation for morality?

5. What women are too weak and artificial for the author to address in her work?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Wollstonecraft compare women to the rich?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Wollstonecraft say she is pessimistic about in the Introduction? What effect does she see as a result?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Mary Wollstonecraft. How did her upbringing help shape her philosophy about the inequality of men and women? What influence did she have on feminist philosophy?

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

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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