CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting LiteraturePractice

. What is the primary suggestion of the first sentence of this excerpt? A. Women have not been allowed to gain the knowledge necessary to have a true understanding of morality. B. Men are tyrants who use the faults of women to excuse their own bad behavior. Men and women should be held to two different standards of moral character. D. Virtue, or moral character, is innate. E. Women are weak and cannot be expected to maintain the moral standards men uphold. C. 6/22/23, 9:50 AM CLEP® Analyzing and Interpreting Literature Practice Exam 1 Use the following to answer question 3. The following passage is taken from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792. To account for, and excuse the tyranny of man, many ingenious arguments have been brought forward to prove, that the two sexes, in the acquirement of virtue, ought to aim at attaining a very The following passage is taken from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792. To account for, and excuse the tyranny of man, many ingenious arguments have been brought forward to prove, that the two sexes, in the acquirement of virtue, ought to aim at attaining a very different character: or, to speak explicitly, women are not allowed to have sufficient strength of mind to acquire what really deserves the name of virtue. Yet it should seem, allowing them to have souls, that there is but one way appointed by Providence to lead mankind to either virtue or happiness. If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence? Men complain, and with reason, of the follies and caprices of our sex, when they do not keenly satirize our headstrong passions and groveling vices. Behold, I should answer, the natural effect of ignorance! The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force. Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man; and should they be beautiful, everything else is needless, for, at least, twenty years of their lives. 2. The author suggests that the notion of there being different standards of virtue for men and women is A. predetermined by God, and not a point to be disputed B. a deception devised by men to excuse their own lack of virtue C. logical, considering that women are more prone to vice and immoral behavior than are men D. a means by which women can show their obedience to their husbands and fathers E. the only way to ensure that both men and women can find happiness