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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?

A
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.
D
It affirms the notion that religion can’t be used as a basis for unequal treatment.
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Read the quotation from "Ain't I a Woman?"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Which 1850s social norm is reflected in the excerpt about white women?

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the idea that women should look delicate and be handled delicately
B
the idea that women should avoid too many intellectual pursuits
C
the idea that women should devote themselves to becoming a mother
D
the idea that women should be more practical and less sentimental
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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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Which excerpt from "Ain't I a Woman?" is the best example of logos?

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Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?
B
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?
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.
D
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!
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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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