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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 does Wollstonecraft say would be one measure of success for her educational system?

2. How can children be encouraged to think on their own?

3. What makes the charlatans addressed in the first section of Chapter 13 worse, according to Wollstonecraft?

4. What types of people does Wollstonecraft criticize in the first section of Chapter 13?

5. What can be harmful to the growth of parental affection, according to Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is morality undermined in women's lives, according to Wollstonecraft?

2. What makes women careless or unnatural mothers, according to Wollstonecraft?

3. What is the focus of virtue for women, according to Wollstonecraft? How can women behave if they attain that virtue?

4. What problems does Wollstonecraft see with current methods of education in her society? What solution does she offer?

5. What is the role of education, according to the fifth section of Chapter 13? How do silly mothers damage children?

6. Give two of Wollstonecraft’s concluding remarks.

7. What is the focus of Chapter 9?

8. What does Wollstonecraft say about meek mothers?

9. How do the duties of women contribute to their behavior in marriages?

10. How can women bring out modesty from chastity?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Rousseau's perspective of women as revealed in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Does this agree with Wollstonecraft's perspective? Why or why not? What does Wollstonecraft think of Rousseau? Why?

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

Explain the revolution Wollstonecraft calls for in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. What does she want to happen? Who would lead the revolution? Why is it necessary?

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