from A Vindication of the Rights of Women
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Comprehension questions
1. Wollstonecraft devotes the beginning of her introduction to the claim that women have been harmed by — *
2. What trait does Wollstonecraft hope to develop in women? *
3. What “law of nature” does Wollstonecraft accept? *
4. Which group of people does Wollstonecraft characterize in her statement “as a class of mankind they have the strongest claim to pity”? *
5. According to Wollstonecraft, people who are only the objects of pity and condescending love will eventually become objects of — *
6. For Wollstonecraft the first task of any human being, male or female, is to — *
7. According to Wollstonecraft, which of the following is not a result of the “artificial weakness” that is bred into women? *
8. Wollstonecraft concludes her introduction by pointing out that in the struggle for social power, the governing force will always be — *
9. What basic female roles does Wollstonecraft accept for women? *
10. What qualities are conventionally assigned to women according to Wollstonecraft? *
11. What qualities are conventionally assigned to men according to Wollstonecraft? *
12. In the sentence beginning “Animated by this important object, I shall disdain to cull my phrases,” Wollstonecraft tells her audience that she — *
Literary Focus: Tone and Rhetorical Devices

The questions below refer to the selection “from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.”

13. Writers establish tone by all of the following means except — *
14. In the first paragraph, Wollstonecraft declares that many women are “wretched.” If she had wanted to choose a synonym with milder connotations, she might have used the word -- *
15. In the first paragraph, what rhetorical device is used to draw attention to the ideals of the 1776 American Revolution.. “All men ...” pg. 639 *
16. “Women taught only to please men are like flowers whose soil is too rich; showy but unhealthy.” is an example of what kind of rhetorical device? pg. 639 *
17.She poses a ________ by asking “Where are the masculine women?”  pg. 640 *
Vocabulary Development
 Indicate the Vocabulary word that best completes each sentence below :

solicitude
fastidious
specious
abrogated
cursory
superlatives
vitiate
bugbear
propensity
insipid

18. The opposite of genuine is _______ . *
19. An experience that is not exciting or lively, but boring and stale, is _______ . *
20. Most of the best writers are _______ in their choice of words. *
21. An inclination or tendency to do something is a _______ to do it. *
22. You cannot fully understand a difficult nonfiction text if you read it in a _______ way. *
23. Name something that a parent would feel SOLICITUDE for. *
24. What is the opposite of a PARTIAL juror?   *
25. What word is the opposite of DEPLORE?   *
26. What is the opposite of a FASTIDIOUS person?   *
27. If you have ABROGATED your responsibilities, have you abandoned them or embraced them? *
Constructed Response
Then and Now
In a brief essay, evaluate the relevance of Wollstonecraft’s essay to our time. Do her observations about the role of women hold true today, or are her arguments limited to the social realities of the eighteenth century? Which, if any, of her observations about men and women remain valid in the twenty-first century?


Use details from the text and examples from real life to support your response. *
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