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Quiz for Document 11–5: Sarah Grimké, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, 1838

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What role did education seem to play in the lives of American women, according to Grimké?

Education given to women encouraged them to see marriage as their highest ambition.

Education prepared women exclusively for farm work.

Education inspired young women to expect more from their lives than marriage and children.

Education in the United States turned even the nation’s poorest women into attractive mates and employees.

2. What was Grimké’s complaint about the plight of working women?

They were paid less than men for equal work.

They were passed over for jobs even if they were more qualified.

Their husbands disliked them working outside their homes.

Their bosses sometimes harassed them.

3. According to Grimké, how did slavery affect both white and black women?

It made motherhood more difficult and demanding.

It made women more callous and uncaring.

It lessened the value of women’s work.

It damaged their virtue and moral purity.