Quiz: Primary Source - Lucretia Mott
Due May 10 at 11:59pm Points 20 Questions 6 Time Limit 20 Minutes
Instructions
The quiz:
Covers the Learn material from Module 8: Week 8.
Contains 5 multiple-choice questions.
Is limited to 20 minutes.
Allows 1 attempt.
Is worth 20 points.
You may refer to your notes and textbooks at any time during the assessment.
Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Friday of Module 8: Week 8.
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Question 1
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Read the following passage, then answer the questions below.
It is with reluctance that I make the demand for the political rights of woman, because this claim is so
distasteful to the age. Woman shrinks, in the present state of society, from taking any interest in politics.
The events of the French Revolution, and the claim for woman's rights are held up to her as a warning.
But let us not look at the excesses of women alone, at that period; but remember that the age was
marked with extravagances and wickedness in men as well as women. Indeed, political life abounds with
these excesses, and with shameful outrage. Who knows, but that if woman acted her part in
governmental affairs, there might be an entire change in the turmoil of political life. It becomes man to
speak modestly of his ability to act without her. If woman's judgment were exercised, why might she not
aid in making the laws by which she is governed? Lord Brougham remarked that the works of Harriet
Martineau upon Political Economy were not excelled by those of any political writer of the present time.
The first few chapters of her Society in America, her views of a Republic, and of Government generally,
furnish evidence of woman's capacity to embrace subjects of universal interest. Far be it from me to
encourage woman to vote, or to take an active part in politics, in the present state of our government.
Her right to the elective franchise however, is the same, and should be yielded to her, whether she
exercise that right or not. Would that man too, would have no participation in a government based upon
the life-taking principle—upon retaliation and the sword. It is unworthy a Christian nation. But when, in
the diffusion of light and intelligence, a convention shall be called to make regulations for self-
government on Christian, non-resistant principles, I can see no good reason, why woman should not
participate in such an assemblage, taking part equally with man. — Lucretia Mott “Discourse on Woman”
I have read the above passage.
I have not read the above passage.
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Question 2
4 / 4 pts
Mott claimed that if allowed into the political realm
Women could contribute to making the laws with knowledge and skill
Women could do better than men in making laws pertaining to women’s issues
Women would bring the nation to the same chaos found during the French Revolution
Women would violate the laws of nature and nature’s God
Question 3
4 / 4 pts
How did Mott say she feels about demanding political rights for women?
She said she doesn’t advocate for women’s votes but women should be given the right
She said equality for all women in all things was the guiding principle of republicanism
She said that women could make better decisions than men in most cases
She said it was distasteful and should not be the goal of any woman
Question 4
4 / 4 pts
What European event was given as an argument against giving women voting rights?
The Glorious Revolution
The French Revolution
The reign of Queen Victoria
The Thirty Years’ War
Question 5
4 / 4 pts
In her “Discourse,” Mott drew a division between
Male and female spheres
The right and the exercise of voting
The laws men and women should write and follow
Christian and non-Christian views of women
Question 6
4 / 4 pts
What writer’s works did Mott say were proof of the ability of women to discuss political topics?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lord Brougham
