11. Document Project 11: Religious Faith and Women’s Activism

Quiz for Document 11.8 Congregational Pastoral Letter, 1837

Quiz for Document 11.8: Congregational Pastoral Letter, 1837

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What assumption about women forms the foundation of the Pastoral Letter to the Liberator?

Women are ignorant.

Women are not true Christians.

Women are uneducated.

Women are dependent upon men.

2. How did the pastors argue women should demonstrate influence?

In the home

Through educational opportunities

In the workplace

As church leaders

3. What type of activism was considered acceptable by the church leaders?

Protests and picket lines

Prayer and church ministry

Hunger strikes and pamphlets

Public political speeches

4. What does the author seem afraid of when women are seen speaking in public and being politically active?

That there is no need for men in their lives

That women are better speakers than men

That audiences will prefer female leaders to men

That women will succeed in ending slavery

5. To what does the author seem to be referring in the final lines of the letter?

Fashion

Sexuality

Childbearing

Working

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