AnswersIC English 11 - DeeringAbolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 2

Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 2 Answers

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Which best describes the diction in "Ain't I a Woman?"

A
formal and detached
B
formal and scholarly
C
informal and relatable
D
informal and light-hearted
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Read the sentence from "Ain't I a Woman?"Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. Which best describes the diction?

A
formal and friendly
B
informative and academic
C
demanding and assertive
D
inviting and familiar
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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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In the second paragraph of "Ain't I a Woman?," how does Truth appeal to listeners’ sense of logic?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?

A
She presents evidence that women can be as strong as men.
B
She recounts personal experiences to gain her audience’s trust.
C
She asks her audience to sympathize with her plight.
D
She explains the many hardships that she has experienced.
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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.
D
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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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?

A
to suggest that audience should worry about her
B
to reinforce the idea that men should be more helpful
C
to suggest that females are tougher than males
D
to reinforce that she is strong, resilient and female
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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?

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!
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?"I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!Which statement best explains why this is an example of ethos?

A
It places Truth in a position of moral superiority.
B
It shows that Truth has experiences to support her claims.
C
It accentuates Truth’s belief in the importance of hard work.
D
It suggests that Truth considers herself stronger than others.
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Which excerpt from "Ain't I a Woman?" is the best example of logos?

A
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?"Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that ’twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what’s all this here talking about? Which best describes the syntax?

A
Truth uses complex syntax to express the idea that the movement toward equality is gaining momentum in the US.
B
Truth uses complex syntax to express her confusion at the fact that people do not have equal rights in the US.
C
Truth uses simple syntax to lay out the ideas she is going to expand upon through the course of her speech.
D
Truth uses simple syntax to describe each group that is fighting for equal rights in the US.

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