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Quiz for Document 21–1: Jane Addams, The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements, 1892

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What did Addams think was a problem in American society in the late nineteenth century?

Too many immigrants were entering the country.

Christianity seemed to be in dramatic decline.

Young educated people lacked care, compassion, and interest.

Women were taught to be altruistic but could not deploy their skills.

2. How did Addams understand the relationship between religion and settlement houses?

She viewed settlement houses as spaces in which to convert immigrants to Christianity.

She saw the work of settlement houses as an expression of altruistic, Christian values.

She thought that the settlement movement provided an alternative to organized religion.

She believed settlement houses should operate without any religious influence.

3. How did Addams envision the role of settlement house workers?

As resources for the poor

As leaders by example

As teachers

As moral authorities