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Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 2 Answers

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In "Ain't I a Woman?," why does Truth repeat the phrase “Ain’t I a woman?” throughout the second paragraph?That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it – and bear the lash as well! And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?

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to suggest that audience should worry about her
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to reinforce the idea that men should be more helpful
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to suggest that females are tougher than males
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to reinforce that she is strong, resilient and female
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Read the quotation from Abigail Adams. It is from a letter she wrote her husband, John Adams, as he helped draft the US Constitution. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.Which excerpt from "Ain't I a Woman?" best supports Adams’s view?

A
Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from?
B
Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?
C
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
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Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it – and bear the lash as well!
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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?

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Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman!
B
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere.
C
Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
D
I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!
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Read the quotation from "Ain't I a Woman?"And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? Which best describes the syntax?

A
Truth uses simple syntax to grab the audience’s attention and make a strong point about her own resilience.
B
Truth uses simple syntax to emphasize the insignificance of the experience she is describing.
C
Truth uses complex syntax to explain what types of labor she has performed in her lifetime.
D
Truth uses complex syntax to question whether or not the audience recognizes who she is.
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Read the quotation from "Ain't I a Woman?"Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.How does this quotation support the central idea of the speech?

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It reinforces the idea that Truth’s personal experiences have greatly influenced her ideas.
B
It reminds the audience that Truth has strong spiritual and political ideals.
C
It supports that idea that women deserve equality by referencing religious authority.
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It affirms the notion that religion can’t be used as a basis for unequal treatment.
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Read the quotation from Abigail Adams. It is from a letter she wrote her husband, John Adams, as he helped draft the US Constitution. I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.Based on "Ain't I a Woman?," how would Truth most likely feel about Adams’s statement?

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Truth would disagree with Adams’s sentiment that women deserve equality in the eyes of society.
B
Truth would agree with Adams’s sentiment that women deserve to be represented in the Constitution.
C
Truth would feel that Adams is not qualified to comment on issues relating to women’s rights.
D
Truth would support Adams’s sentiment that women should not be involved in politics.
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Which best describes why Truth describes her personal experiences in "Ain't I a Woman?"

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to suggest that she is more qualified than others to discuss the issue of equal rights
B
to provide credible proof that women are not less physically capable than men.
C
to entertain her audience by recounting tense and emotional stories
D
to encourage people to feel sorry for her and grant her what she wants

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