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Female Orations Assess B1
Questions from the text, "Female Orations" by Margaret Cavendish. Answer all questions as dicated by the type of question.
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The third speaker believes women ought to complain about
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women who deny that they need men to survive.
men who fail to admire and provide for women.
the dangers and challenges of bearing children.
nature, which created men superior to women.
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What objection does the fifth speaker make to the fourth speaker’s position in this debate?
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Women are better at male activities than men are.
Women who imitate men lose their love forever.
Challenging men at their activities pleases God.
People’s bodies should dictate their activities.
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The first speaker says that women could become happy if they
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worked much more in their homes.
became famous for debating.
assembled in groups to talk.
left their husbands’ homes.
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Both speakers one and seven would agree with the idea that during the 17th century women are miserable because men are free to pursue things like pleasure, power, and fame.
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True
False
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The sixth speaker’s position in this debate is that imitating men is
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better because men are superior terrestrial beings.
against the commandments of the gods.
a poor substitute for imitating the gods.
an unnatural thing for women to do.
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What does the seventh speaker say Nature forces men to do?
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desire women
take voyages
lose their youth
speak loudly
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Check the arguments that the fifth speaker uses to support her position that the advice to behave like men is “strange and unwise”?
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men cannot give birth
having female bodies yet masculine parts would be preposterous
women would be hermaphroditical
men are corrupt and imperfect
What question seems to be the center of this debate?
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Are women’s roles in society appropriate?
How can women prove that men are superior?
How many women wish they had better lives?
What evidence shows that women are superior?
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Why does the fourth speaker say that women and men are unaware of women’s abilities?
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Men keep women down.
Nature holds women back.
Women’s abilities are untested.
Schools refuse to accept women.
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The second speaker says that women’s “words to men are as empty sounds.” This comment supports the first speaker’s idea that
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women never gather to talk to one another.
men have little concern for women’s ideas.
women are anxious to share men’s fame.
men only think about their own pleasure.
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