Correct. The answer is b. The women who authored these selections all describe situations in which they felt dissatisfied with their lives as wives and mothers.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The women who authored these selections all describe situations in which they felt dissatisfied with their lives as wives and mothers.

Correct. The answer is a. According to Willard, Gilman, and Hitchcock, men’s preoccupations with their careers and public roles increased their self-absorption and lack of interest in their wives.

Incorrect. The answer is a. According to Willard, Gilman, and Hitchcock, men’s preoccupations with their careers and public roles increased their self-absorption and lack of interest in their wives.

Correct. The answer is b. Gilman advised women who were unhappy in their marriages to submit to their husbands, repress their feelings, and continue to “smile amid a thousand perplexities.”

Incorrect. The answer is b. Gilman advised women who were unhappy in their marriages to submit to their husbands, repress their feelings, and continue to “smile amid a thousand perplexities.”

Correct. The answer is c. Mary Wollstonecraft, who published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792, would have suggested that these women’s unhappiness stemmed in large part from their legal and political status, which forced them to remain in unhappy marriages.

Incorrect. The answer is c. Mary Wollstonecraft, who published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792, would have suggested that these women’s unhappiness stemmed in large part from their legal and political status, which forced them to remain in unhappy marriages.

Correct. The answer is d. By the 1820s, many white middle-class American women were inspired by the Second Great Awakening and flooded into evangelical churches, where they found satisfying relationships with other women and more socially meaningful roles.

Incorrect. The answer is d. By the 1820s, many white middle-class American women were inspired by the Second Great Awakening and flooded into evangelical churches, where they found satisfying relationships with other women and more socially meaningful roles.