15. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 15: Women in the West

**Quiz for Document 15.4: Abigail Scott Duniway, Speaking Out for the Right to Vote (1914)**

Quiz for Document 15.4: Abigail Scott Duniway, Speaking Out for the Right to Vote (1914)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. What made Abigail Scott Duniway’s chaperone objectionable to some in Oregon?

She was an unwed mother.

Her professional standing might make men jealous.

She was divorced.

She promoted suffrage but did not support temperance.

2. When Abigail Scott Duniway discusses good district judges who rescued women from “legalized prostitution,” she is referring to

immigrant women like Xin Jin who were indentured as prostitutes in the West.

women who were hired as prostitutes to work in Oregon’s timber industry.

women in mining towns who came seeking economic opportunity and ended up in brothels.

women like Mary Sawtelle who had been forced into early marriages to cruel men.

3. Why was Abigail Scott Duniway so awed and nervous when she first entered the legislative chamber?

She realized that she was one of the first women to enter a male domain.

She realized that she was unfamiliar with the fine points of parliamentary procedure.

She had never participated in any activities outside the domestic sphere.

She knew that her proposal for woman suffrage was going to face tremendous opposition.

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