Answering these questions enables you to relate material from the text to your own personal experiences.
Update the encyclopedia entry for “Negroes” found in Chapter 24. What would you add or delete?
How many of Pope’s basic views on nature and humankind (Reading 4.21) do you share? With which would you take issue? Why?
Compare the excerpt from Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence to Abigail Adams’ letter to her husband, John. How do you imagine Mrs. Adams might have reframed the Declaration?
Consider Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women from a 21st-century perspective. What would Wollstonecraft think of women’s standing today? What changes would you like to see? Why?
