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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. Whose letters does Wollstonecraft address at the end of Chapter 5?

2. How do love and arbitrary passion reign?

3. To whom does Rousseau's argument about virtue apply?

4. How does Wollstonecraft say God intended mankind to live after the Fall?

5. What should passion subside into in order for a couple to be happy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Wollstonecraft say she is going to start with in Chapter 1?

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

4. What justification do men use for the inferiority of women that Wollstonecraft compares to tyrannical rulers?

5. What do women believe about religion, according to Chapter 3?

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

7. How does Wollstonecraft compare women to the rich?

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

9. What kind of education do women have, according to the Introduction? What kind of women does this produce?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Wollstonecraft's thoughts on parenting. How are children parented in Wollstonecraft's society? What does Wollstonecraft think of this? What changes does Wollstonecraft want to see in the parenting paradigm?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the relationship between education and parenting in the 18th century. Why is education important for parenting? What affect does women's poor education have on their role as a mother?

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