Why does MacGregor begin the chapter on the slit drum with facts about Horatio Herbert Kitchener?
It makes the reader curious about Edward VII.It helps the reader visualize the coin.It links the reader personally to the suffragettes.
He asks a question.He gives an anecdote.He provides a description.
Queen Victoria’s reign over Great BritainGreat Britain’s rule over SudanEgypt’s control of the East African slave trade
What is the cultural significance of the carvings on the side of the slit drum?
Which quotations reveal the historical significance of the suffragette-defaced penny? Check all that apply.“. . . the battle only really got going at the start of the twentieth century, when the suffragette movement was born . . .”“Defacing a coin of the realm is a more subtle crime – one with no evident victims . . .”“The idea is incredibly clever, because it uses the potential that coinage has . . . to be widely circulated.”“Our Edward VII bronze penny was struck in the year of the formation of the Women’s Social and Political Union (the WSPU), whose founders included Emmeline Pankhurst . . .”“The suffragettes became systematic lawbreakers in order to change the law, and defacing the penny was just one element in a campaign that went far beyond civil disobedience.”
What cultural shift does the penny represent?
“found by Kitchener’s army”“added the emblem of the British Crown”“the increasingly Christian African south”
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