Chapter 17

Quiz for Document 17-3: Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, Educated for What? (1916)

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Question 1

The questions around which Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant focuses her article Educated for What? reflect which of the following early-twentieth-century debates?A. Whether education for women was beneficial or detrimental
B. The proper role of women in modern industrializing America
C. Whether birth control should be legalized or prohibited
D. Whether the government should allow women to vote and hold office

Question 2

Which of the following statements best summarizes the argument made by the characters Tom and Felicia in Sergeant’s imagined dialogue?A. Educating men and women is an industrialized society’s most pressing economic concern.
B. Industrialized capitalist societies have perverted the natural biological order and threatened traditional marriage.
C. Man is by nature more rational and intelligent than the more emotionally sensitive woman.
D. Women are naturally suited to roles of motherhood and caregiving that will always interfere with professional commitments.

Question 3

According the argument presented by the characters of Jim and Mary, professional women continue to accept the responsibility for the majority of domestic tasks because ofA. biological aptitude.
B. long-standing cultural expectations.
C. male ineptitude.
D. religious injunctions.