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Part 3: Using Media to Extend Understanding of an Informational Text

Question 116717 • CA-English Language Arts 12 B – 1744

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.”

Answer
A
“. . . the battle only really got going at the start of the twentieth century, when the suffragette movement was born . . .”
B
“Defacing a coin of the realm is a more subtle crime – one with no evident victims . . .”
C
“The idea is incredibly clever, because it uses the potential that coinage has . . . to be widely circulated.”
D
“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 . . .”
E
“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.”
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