AP Success - AP World History: Enlightenment & Women's Rights

Source 1

"I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt."

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792

Question 1

Multiple choice

In the context of the Enlightenment, Mary Wollstonecraft's argument in 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' primarily reflects which of the following intellectual movements?

Feminism
Absolutism
Romanticism
Mercantilism

Question 2

Multiple choice

Which of the following best describes the primary purpose of Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'?

To call for the immediate political enfranchisement of women
To support the traditional roles of women in society
To advocate for women's education and rational improvement
To promote the idea that women are naturally superior to men

Question 3

Multiple choice

Mary Wollstonecraft's critique of 'susceptibility of heart' and 'delicacy of sentiment' as 'epithets of weakness' is an argument against which of the following societal norms?

The importance of chivalry and honor in the aristocracy
The role of religion in justifying the divine right of kings
The use of emotion in art and literature during the Enlightenment
The sentimentalization and diminution of women's capabilities

Question 4

Multiple choice

The excerpt from Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' is an example of which of the following trends in the late 18th century?

The rise of nationalism and the creation of modern nation-states
Challenging traditional gender roles and advocating for equality
The consolidation of power under absolute monarchies
The decline of Enlightenment thinking in favor of traditionalism

Question 5

Multiple choice

Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' contributed to which of the following broader historical processes?

The spread of colonial empires in the New World
The development of modern feminist thought
The reinforcement of the patriarchal system
The intensification of the transatlantic slave trade

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