Question

1. Which sentence best conveys how Stanton's views have been shaped by her experiences as an American woman in the early nineteenth century?

A) She is reluctant to criticize the writers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution because she respects the ideals expressed in those documents.
B) She wants true equality in education, employment, voting, and marriage because, like other women of her background, she has been deprived of it.
C) She emphasizes inequality in marriage less than other kinds of gender equality because many women in her culture have good marriages.
D) She feels certain that women will win true equality because American culture has raised her to be optimistic and energetic.


2. Which quotation from the text best supports the inference that the ideas presented in the declaration are not typically discussed openly?
A) "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her."
B) "To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world."
C) "He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead."
D) "He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men—both natives and foreigners."


3. How does the last paragraph of the article develop the author's ideas?
A) It provides a poignant example of how women are not treated equally to men.
B) It restates the idea that women and men do not have equal rights.
C) It illustrates how not having equal rights has negatively affected women.
D) It states the author's call to action that women be given the same rights as men.

Answer 1

1. B) She wants true equality in education, employment, voting, and marriage because, like other women of her background, she has been deprived of it.

2. B) "To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world."

3. D) It states the author's call to action that women be given the same rights as men.

Step-by-step explanation:

From the excerpt, these answers are the correct options to each questions.

In the first question, Stanton's views has been shaped as an American woman in the nineteenth century by her desire for true equality in education, employment and voting because like other women, she has been deprived of it.

From the second question, the quotation that supports her idea that the ideas in the declaration are not discussed openly is the quotation where she asks that the facts be presented to a candid world.

Finally, the last paragraph develops the author's ideas by stating the call to action that woman deserves the same voting, employment, marriage rights as men.