Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 2 — Quiz
Question 6 • Literature and Composition III
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?
Answer
A
Truth would feel that Adams is not qualified to comment on issues relating to women’s rights.
B
Truth would agree with Adams’s sentiment that women deserve to be represented in the Constitution.
C
Truth would support Adams’s sentiment that women should not be involved in politics.
D
Truth would disagree with Adams’s sentiment that women deserve equality in the eyes of society.