Famous Speeches Analysis

What is the main idea of the selection?

• Women should share in working outside the home to take some of the burden from men

• Women are more intelligent than are given credit and can therefore earn more money

• Women deserve the same rights and protections under the law and should have the right to vote

Based on this selection, which of the following best describes Susan B. Anthony's Tone?

• confident about her ability to obtain the right for women to vote

• certain that women are superior to men

• pleased that men care for and make decisions for women

Based on the selection, which of the following statements is the best assumption Susan B. Anthony could have made about the audience that included both men and women?

• the audience would be supportive of her ideas

• the women in the audience would be scared at the new proposal

• the men would act out violently at her proposal

Which of the following statements is the best example of Susan B. Anthony using allusion in her speech?

• “it is downright mockery to talk to women of the blessings of liberty"

• “the only question left to be settled"

• “We, the people of the United States”

What is the effect of beginning the selection with the phrase, “I stand before you tonight under indictment for having voted at the last presidential election”?

• to show that women have more rights than men
• to show the ridiculousness of being arrested for voting
• to explain why she is now getting out of jail

Which persuasive technique does the speaker use in this quote? “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.”

• Alliteration

• Pathos

• Repetition

What is Susan B. Anthony’s purpose in reciting the first paragraph of the Constitution?

• to persuade by repetition

• to persuade by citing a secondary source

• to persuade by citing a primary source

Which of the following statements connects closest to the speeches of both MLK Jr and LBJ about the right of all US Citizens to vote?

• “I not only committed no crime but, instead, simply exercised my citizen’s rights [to vote], guaranteed to me and to all United States citizens by the National Constitution.”

• “Hence every discrimination…is today null and void against the negroes.”