Central Ideas in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Answers

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What ideas in the passage tell more information about the topic of equal rights for women? Check all that apply.

Men need to have more children so they have more practice parenting.

Men are not expected to share responsibility in raising children.

Women engage in vanity because they are denied equal rights.

Women will try to gain power in negative ways when they do not have rights.

When women do not have rights, they can act in ways that negatively affect men.

What is the central idea of this passage?

Women do not have enough time to raise children.

Both men and women need to trust their instincts.

Looking in the mirror harms women’s ability to gain rights.

Giving women rights will help both men and women.

How does the central idea support the overall argument expressed in the controlling idea?

It shows the benefits of education for women in future generations.

It establishes the idea that women are not the only ones who benefit from equal education.

It illustrates how men can have improved education.

It demonstrates a negative result of improving women’s education.

How does Wollstonecraft use these two central ideas together to build the controlling idea?

She describes a misconception about women’s education, and then builds on it to explain how educating women benefits everyone.

She describes women’s current situation, and then explains how men can help prevent that situation from changing.

She uses both ideas to show that a lack of education has negative effects on women.

She uses both ideas to show how denying women an education positively affects men.

What final ideas does Wollstonecraft present to support her argument? Check all that apply.

Women’s rights deserve the same respect as men’s rights.

Wollstonecraft is the person most qualified to revise the Constitution.

The Rights of Woman should be widely read and respected.

It is unjust for women to be excluded from having equal rights.

It would be fair for women to have more rights than men.

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