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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. Women are slaves to _______________.

2. What gives man preeminence over creatures?

3. What does Wollstonecraft want women to acquire?

4. How should education be supplemented?

5. Wollstonecraft hopes that _____________will forgive her.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How do men attain regal power? How do their subjects react?

9. What does Wollstonecraft say is the importance of individual education in Chapter 2? How must it be supplemented?

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

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

Discuss Wollstonecraft's thoughts on the duties of children to their parents. What duties do children have toward their parents in Wollstonecraft's society? What does Wollstonecraft think of this? What changes does Wollstonecraft want to see in children's duties to their parents?

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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