Question 11 • RIDDLE-FL-1700370-Critical Thinking and Study Skills 25/26
Read the excerpt from "On Women’s Right to Vote” by Susan B. Anthony.It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people—women as well as men. And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government—the ballot.
Answer
A
The country was formed by both women and men.
B
Women have the blessing of liberty.
C
Only White men are allowed to vote.
D
The denial of voting rights is a mockery.
Explanation
Anthony calls it “a downright mockery” to speak of women enjoying liberty while denying them the ballot, the means she says is needed to secure liberty. So the statement that best captures her point is “The denial of voting rights is a mockery.”
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