Persuasion in Susan B. Anthony's "On Women's Right to Vote"

Question 1

Read this excerpt from Marian Anderson’s “Gifts of Speech.”Thousands of women are at work in arsenals on all kinds of ammunition, bullets, shells, and bombs. Thousands of women are making war instruments and electrical equipment. Thousands are helping to produce tanks, . . .

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D: to convince listeners that women are very capable workers

Question 2

Which excerpt from Marian Anderson’s “Gifts of Speech” has an emotional tone?

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A: We have been deeply impressed and inspired by the heroic efforts of women among our allies in this great fight for democracy.

Question 3

Read the conclusion from Susan B. Anthony’s speech, “On Women's Right to Vote.”The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Being persons, then, the women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities. Hence, every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void, precisely as is every one against Negroes.

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D: convince the audience that women are entitled to the same rights as men.

Question 4

Read the excerpt from Susan B. Anthony’s “On Women's Right to Vote.”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.

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B: logical reasoning

Question 5

Which excerpt from Marian Anderson’s “Gifts of Speech” is factual evidence in her argument?

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C: We have, in this country, about four million women in war jobs, less than a fourth of all our women workers.

Question 6

Read the excerpt from Susan B. Anthony’s “On Women's Right to Vote.”I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote.

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B: alleged crime

Question 7

Read the excerpt from Susan B. Anthony’s “On Women's Right to Vote.”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.

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A: a downright mockery; denied the use of

Question 8

Susan B. Anthony quotes the preamble of the US Constitution in her speech “On Women's Right to Vote” to

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A: offer evidence that women deserve to vote.

Question 9

In her speech, why does Susan B. Anthony quote the constitution that says, “We, the people of the United States”?

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A: to persuade the audience that women are people

Question 10

Read the excerpt from Susan B. Anthony’s “On Women's Right to Vote.”It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny.

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B: confident

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