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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 modesty is NOT, according to Chapter 7?

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

3. How do women whose duties come from a sense of propriety often behave in their own marriages?

4. What can happen when mothers exhibit a lack of reason?

5. What reason is there to obey a parent only because they are a parent?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the reciprocal duty Wollstonecraft explains in Chapter 11.

2. Why is morality undermined in women's lives, 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 is modesty? Why is it important, according to Wollstonecraft?

5. What is the focus of Chapter 9?

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

7. What justification does Wollstonecraft give in Chapter 10 for strengthening women's understanding?

8. How does Wollstonecraft explain modesty?

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

10. Why does Wollstonecraft advocate national schools, according to the end of Chapter 12?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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