Question

Read the excerpts from midnight assassin and glaspell's newspaper article "she prepares to fight." midnight assassin: but reports soon surfaced that hossack had abused and threatened his family, and for years his wife had gone to the neighbors to complain of his behavior. "she prepares to fight": though past 50 years of age, she is tall and powerful and looks like she would be dangerous if aroused to a point of hatred. which excerpt is biased and why? the first excerpt, because it does not indicate whether the reports were accepted as evidence in the case. the first excerpt, because it contains assumptions that may have affected the writer's beliefs about mr. hossack. the second excerpt, because it contains nothing that can be proven with objective evidence. the second excerpt, because it appears to contain a prejudice that may have affected the writer's beliefs about mrs. hossack. mark this and return save and exit

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

The second excerpt, because it appears to contain a prejudice that may have affected the writer's beliefs about mrs. hossack.

In 1900, John Hossack, an Iowa farmer, was murdered in his bed. At his funeral, Margaret Murchison Hossack, his wife for 32 years, was arrested and charged with killing her husband.

The rural community´s division on the matter had some people sustaining biased arguments such as the one from Glaspell's article while others supported Margaret Hossack innocense under the light of domestic troubles and abuse depicted by prosecutors as a motive for the crime.