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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 think should happen to men who ruin women?

2. What does Wollstonecraft think about the old principles and ways of doing things in regards to parenting?

3. From where does a lot of the misery of the world stem?

4. What, according to Some Thoughts Concerning Education, may contribute to the weakness of women?

5. What does Wollstonecraft discuss the effects of in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Wollstonecraft order women's duties in society?

2. What kind of education does Wollstonecraft support at the beginning of Chapter 12? Why?

3. Why does Wollstonecraft think it is worse for a married woman than a single woman to have an affair?

4. How do women learn to behave as wives, according to Chapter 11?

5. Explain how parents govern their children, according to the beginning of Chapter 10?

6. What is modesty? Why is it important, according to Wollstonecraft?

7. What is the focus of Chapter 9?

8. Explain what happens to children who are raised by parents who work from the heart and an understanding of the child?

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

10. How does society expect men and women to keep their passions in check?

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

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

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?

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