Question 8.
Read the following passages carefully before you choose your answer.
Passage One
This passage is taken from "The Revolt of Mother" by Mary Freeman.
"The girl went to the sink, and began to wash the dishes that were piled up there. Her mother came promptly out of the pantry, and shoved her aside. 'You wipe 'em,' said she; 'I'll wash. There's a good many this mornin'.'
The mother plunged her hands vigorously into the water, the girl wiped the plates slowly and dreamily. 'Mother,' said she, 'don't you think it's too bad father's goin' to build that new barn, much as we need a decent house to live in?'
Her mother scrubbed a dish fiercely. 'You ain't found out yet we're women-folks, Nanny Penn,' said she. 'You ain't seen enough of men-folks yet to. One of these days you'll find it out, an' then you'll know that we know only what men-folks think we do, so far as any use of it goes, an' how we'd ought to reckon men-folks in with Providence, an' not complain of what they do any more than we do of the weather.'"
Passage Two
This passage is taken from George Washington Burnap's The Sphere and Duties of Woman.
"We now see women in that sphere for which she was originally intended and which she is so exactly fitted to adorn and bless, as the wife, the mistress of the home, the solace, the aid, and the counselor of the ONE, for whose sake alone the world is any consequence to her."
Which statement best describes the relationship between the two passages?
A.)Passage One uses situational irony to depict the same attitude toward women as shown in Passage Two.
B.)Passage One uses local dialect to reveal a message that supports the message in Passage Two.
C.)Passage One uses dialogue to reveal an attitude toward women that is also revealed in Passage Two.
D.)Passage One uses scathing satire to reveal a message that supports the message in Passage Two.