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Quiz for Document 23–4: Margaret Sanger, Motherhood in Bondage, 1928

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. Why did Mother B in Sanger’s collection of letters “live in constant dread of another baby”?

She wanted to raise the few children she had so she could resume her career.

Her existing children and their demands were impinging on her marital life.

She feared for her health and worried her living children would suffer if she got pregnant.

Her husband did not want any more children and threatened her with punishment if she became pregnant.

2. Which complaint recurred among the mothers’ letters to Sanger?

Exhaustion from work and child care

Inability to bear a male child

Lack of adequate schools

Frustration about a poor economy

3. What did the mothers who wrote to Sanger desire?

Freedom from other labor so they could focus on raising children

Control over the timing of pregnancy

More help from their husbands in caring for children

Information on sterilization procedures