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Nonfiction Passage: Speech.
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Which of the following best summarizes Sojourner Truth’s argument in “Ain’t I A Woman?”
a) Women are superior to men.
b) All women deserve the same rights as men.
c) The black community should begin fighting for women's rights.
d) Black women deserve the same rights as white women.
Why did Sojourner Truth most likely included paragraph 2 in her speech?
a) to illustrate the injustices against black women in the South.
b) to show that women need help from men.
c) to emphasize how slavery dehumanizes people.
d) to demonstrate how polite men behave in the South.
Which of the following best describes Truth’s tone in “Ain’t I A Woman?”
a) defensive
b) encouraging
c) demanding
d) serene
As it is used in paragraph 6, what does “obliged” most nearly means?
a) thankful
b) in need of
c) morally bound to an action
d) disappointed
How does Truth address the argument against a woman’s intellect?
a) She asks, “Ain’t I a woman?”
b) She alludes to Eve, the first woman.
c) She uses an analogy about measuring cups.
d) She says women are smarter than men.
Why does Truth allude to Eve, the first woman?
a) to show that historically women have had as much power as men
b) because the man in black asked her to name a strong woman
c) to illustrate the power of one woman and apply that strength to other women
d) to offer a counter-argument to the idea that women can’t have the same rights as men because Christ wasn’t a woman
Why does Truth say “the white man will be in a fix soon?”
a) because she knows the Civil War will soon begin
b) because gaining rights for Southern blacks and Northern white women will likely alter the prevailing political power structu
c) because the Thirteenth Amendment had just been passed
d) because white men are broken and need to be fixed
What is the author’s purpose for using the exclamations beginning with “Look at me! Look at my arm!?
a) to impress the crowd
b) to emphasize that all women should not be characterized as fragile and ineffectual
c) to set apart the author’s experiences from other women
d) to indicate the author would not accept help from a man
Reread the following sentence: “If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full? The “cup” is a metaphor for ______________.
a) women’s rights
b) intellect
c) the heart
d) the rights of African-Americans
Which word best describes the style of the passage?
a) formal
b) succinct
c) rambling
d) confrontational
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