Question
15
1 point
Reread paragraphs 8 and 9 of the speech. Then answer the multiple-choice questions that follow.
From "Speech to the Ohio Women's Conference: Ain't I a Woman?* by Sojourner Truth, Account by Marius Robinson, Anti-Slavery Bugle, 1851
8 As for intellect, all I can say is, if a woman have a pint, and a man a quart--why can't she have her little pint full? You need not be afraid to give us our rights
for tear we will take too much-
-for we can't take more than our pint hold.
9 The poor men seems to be all in confusion and don't know what to do. Why children, if you have woman's rights, give it to her and you will feel better. You will
have your own rights, and they won't be so much trouble.
Truth's use of metaphor conveys her purpose by-
C
explaining that women have more intellect than men and should be given more rights than men.
C
entertaining an idea shared by men that women have no intellect at all, so they should not be worried.
showing men that equality between the sexes will result in women becoming smarter than men.
persuading men that women's rights will not affect their own.
Answer
C. Explaining that women have more intellect than men and should be given more rights than men.