Question 1

Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" is about:

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How women's education and socialisation was defective.

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How women's access to professional occupations is limited.

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How women should serve in political institutions.

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How educating women properly leads to a thriving economy.

Question 2

Wollstonecraft's work is focused on:

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Middle and upper class women.

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Lower and middle class women who lived in poverty.

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Women of all classes that did not have to work.

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Middle class women who had to work.

Question 3

The prevailing view of women in Wollstonecraft's time was that:

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They have sensibility but no sense.

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They have neither sense nor sensibility.

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They have sense but no sensibility.

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They have sense and sensibility.

Question 4

Wollstonecraft agreed with the prevailing view of women at her time.

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true

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false

Question 5

Wollstonecraft's argument for women's education is:

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Women have the capacity for reason and knowledge and they need a better education and socialisation system to help them exercise this capacity.

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Women have the capacity for reason and knowledge and the current education and socialisation system is excellent at helping them exercise this capacity.

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Women have the capacity for reason and knowledge but they lack a God-given impulse to exercise it, so they need a better education and socialisation system to help them.

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Women do not have the capacity for reason and knowledge, but with the right education and socialisation system they can come to exercise this capacity.

Question 6

What role does God have in Wollstonecraft's theory?

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God is an entity of reason and perfection, so pursuing reason in our mortal life brings us closer to understanding God in our immortal life.

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None - Wollstonecraft was a staunch atheist.

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God gaves us animal apetites to test our capacity to reason. Those who suppress these appetites go to heaven.

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God instills in us a desire to pursue reason, so ignoring this desire and pursuing a life of pleasures instead is punished in the afterlife.

Question 7

Wollstonecraft thought the way women were in her time is:

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Bad for men, women, and society as a whole.

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Good for society and for men, but bad for women.

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Bad for women and society in general, but good for men.

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Good for men, women, and society as a whole.

Question 8

Wollstonecraft thought that a proper marriage is built on:

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<P>Friendship</P>

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Physical attraction

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<P>Passion</P>

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Shared educational interests

Question 9

Wollstonecraft thought that women manipulating men is:

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Degrading to both men and women.

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Easy because men have limited capacity for reason and knowledge.

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What men deserve for restricting women's rights.

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Impossible because men have the higher capacity to reason.

Question 10

According to Wollstonecraft, the only way in which women might fall short of men is in:

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The virtue of strength.

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The virtue of reason.

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The virtue of knowledge.

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The virtue of kindness.

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