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Quiz for Document 9–3: Judith Sargent Murray, On the Equality of the Sexes, 1790

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What example of women’s imagination and innovative talents did Murray offer?

The accomplishments of women in literature

The works of famous women painters and artists

The leadership women had provided men during the Revolution

The various and rapidly changing fashions in a woman’s world

2. How did education feature in Murray’s argument about the equality of the sexes?

America needed public schools to educate young men and women.

Religious education was the most important education for both men and women.

Women should have equal access to education.

Women needed to learn reading and writing but not mathematics or science.

3. Which of the following correctly describes Murray’s views of men and women throughout history?

Only recently had women become equal to men in their words and actions.

There had been the same number of accomplished women as men in the history of the world.

Men had been more accomplished in the realms of politics and warfare.

Women had accomplished far more than men, though their deeds were not recorded in written histories.

4. In what area did Murray acknowledge that men had the upper hand?

Politics

Mathematics and science

Physical strength

Religion