Period 5: Stimulus-Based Multiple-Choice Questions
Questions 1-3 refer to the following quotation.
I want to say a few words about this matter. I am a
... [Show More] woman's rights. I have as much muscle as any
man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped
and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about the sexes being equal.
I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too, if I can get it. I am as strong as any man
that is now. As for intellect, all I can say is, if a woman have a pint, and a man a quart -- why can't
she have her little pint full? You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take too
much, -- for we can't take more than our pint'll hold. The poor men seems to be all in confusion,
and don't know what to do. Why children, if you have woman's rights, give it to her and you will
feel better. You will have your own rights, and they won't be so much trouble. I can't read, but I
can hear. I have heard the bible and have learned that Eve caused man to sin. Well, if woman
upset the world, do give her a chance to set it right side up again. The Lady has spoken about
Jesus, how he never spurned woman from him, and she was right. When Lazarus died, Mary and
Martha came to him with faith and love and besought him to raise their brother. And Jesus wept
and Lazarus came forth. And how came Jesus into the world? Through God who created him and
the woman who bore him. Man, where was your part? But the women are coming up blessed be
God and a few of the men are coming up with them. But man is in a tight place, the poor slave is
on him, woman is coming on him, he is surely between a hawk and a buzzard.
- Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and former slave, speech to a Women’s Convention in Ohio, 1851
1. Sojourner Truth strongly rejects criticisms of women that are based on which of the
following?
a. The ideas of transcendentalism
b. The cult of domesticity
c. The teachings of religion
d. The working status of women
2. Sojourner Truth saw connection between the women’s rights movement and
a. The Second Great Awakening
b. The antislavery movement
c. The cult of domesticity
d. The Constitution
3. The most widely supported and successful reform movement in the early nineteenth
century was
a. Communalism
b. abolition
c. women's rights
d. temperance
Questions 4-10 refer to the following quotation.
“The Republic of Texas has made known her desire to come into our Union, to form a part of our
Confederacy and enjoy with us the blessings of liberty secured and guaranteed by our Constitution.…
Foreign powers should therefore look on the annexation of Texas to the United States, not as the conquest
of a nation seeking to extend her dominions by arms and violence, but as the peaceful acquisition of a
territory…thereby diminishing the chances of war and opening to them new and ever-increasing markets [Show Less]