Question

The article was written by Carrie Chapman Catt, who served as the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) from 1900–1904, and then again from 1915–1920.

DO YOU KNOW that the question of votes for women is one which is commanding the attention of the whole civilized world; that woman suffrage organizations of representative men and women exist in twenty-seven different countries; that in this country alone there are more than 1,000 woman suffrage organizations; that there is an International and a National Men's League for Woman Suffrage and numbers of local men's leagues; that the number of women who are asking for the vote in this country is larger than the number of men who have ever asked for anything in its entire history; and that a bill for a woman suffrage amendment to the United States Constitution is now before Congress?

DO YOU KNOW that the women of New Zealand and the women of Australia possess all the political rights accorded to men?

DO YOU KNOW that the women of Finland vote in all elections upon the same terms as men and that since then sixteen to twenty-five women have been elected to the different Parliaments?

DO YOU KNOW that in Norway all women have the full Parliamentary vote and that in 1910 one woman sat in the Norwegian Parliament?

DO YOU KNOW that the women of Iceland have the full Parliamentary franchise and that since 1902 one-fourth of the members of the council of the capital city have been women?

DO YOU KNOW that the movement for woman suffrage is just a part of the eternal forward march of the human race toward a complete democracy . . . ?


Passage 2


from Representation
by Alice Duer Miller

After Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall, who served under President Woodrow Wilson, defended his opposition to women's suffrage by saying, "My wife is against suffrage, and that settles me," popular columnist and suffragette Alice Duer Miller responded by writing the following poem, in Marshall's voice.

My wife dislikes the income tax,
And so I cannot pay it;
She thinks that golf all interest lacks,
So now I never play it;
5 She is opposed to tolls repeal
(though why I cannot say),
But woman's duty is to feel,
And man's is to obey.
3Question 3
In the poem "Representation," how does Miller emphasize the absurdity of Vice President Marshall's argument against suffrage?
A.
by detailing the various beliefs and interests Marshall finds objectionable based on the argument that his wife disapproves of them
B.
by lecturing Marshall for setting aside his ideals because of his wife's disapproval
C.
by highlighting the numerous activities and ideas Marshall would give up based on the logic that his wife disapproves of them
D.
by using Marshall's voice to list the multiple pursuits he enjoys but has given up due to his wife's disapproval
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Answer 1

C

Miller uses Marshall's voice to list trivial activities and political positions he'd abandon simply because his wife disapproves, underscoring how absurd it is to let his wife's opinion determine his public, political stance.