Question 3 • FL-1001420-AP English Language and Composition Sem 1 - Flex
Which commentary best connects evidence to Dix’s claim about the importance of women as "household efficiency expert[s]?"
Answer
A
"A woman must be a soldier. . . . She must be a household efficiency expert."
B
"She must know how to cook. . . . She must know how to camouflage mutton stew into a ragout, and make a cake with one egg that will taste like angel’s food."
C
"She must be a seamstress who can take an old dress and twist and turn it until it looks like new, and convert last spring’s hat into a 1920 creation that even her dearest enemy will not recognize."
D
"She must be a thrift campaign and a savings bank, for on the woman who is at the head of a household depends whether the family shall go on to prosperity, or down to the poor house."
E
"No man can make headway against a wasteful and extravagant wife, for most men are wasteful and extravagant themselves, and depend upon their wives to keep the Yale lock on the little old family pocketbook."