Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 2 — Quiz

Question 1 • Language Arts 11

Which excerpt from "Ain't I a Woman?" best refutes the anti-suffragist idea that women were too fragile to handle the right to vote?

Answer

I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere.

Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.

Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman!

Explanation

The excerpt about ploughing, planting, and gathering crops shows that the speaker is strong and capable of doing demanding work. That directly challenges the claim that women are too fragile to take on responsibilities such as voting. Choice C describes the anti-suffragist argument about women’s supposed fragility, but does not refute it as clearly.

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