New SAT Mini-Diagnostic Test
Reading Test 15 MINUTES, 9 QUESTIONS. Questions 1-9 are based on the following passage.
Carrie Chapman Catt was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. This passage is adapted from a speech she made in front of the United States Congress in November 1917, arguing for the passage of the 19th amendment granting all women the right to vote.
Woman suffrage is inevitable. Three distinct
causes made it inevitable.
First, the history of our country. Ours is a nation
Line born of revolution, of rebellion against a system of
5 government so securely entrenched in the customs and traditions of human society that in 1776 it seemed impregnable. The American Revolutionists boldly proclaimed the heresies: “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” “Governments derive
10 their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The colonists won, and the nation which was established as a result of their victory has held unfailingly that these two fundamental principles of democratic government are not only the spiritual
15 source of our national existence but have been our chief historic pride and at all times the sheet anchor of our liberties. Eighty years after the Revolution, Abraham Lincoln welded those two maxims into a new one: “Ours is a government of the people, by
20 the people, and for the people.”
With such a history behind it, how can our nation escape the logic it has never failed to follow, when its last unenfranchised class calls for the vote? Behold our Uncle Sam floating the banner with one
25 hand, “Taxation without representation is tyranny,” and with the other seizing the billions of dollars paid in taxes by women to whom he refuses “representation.” Behold him again, welcoming the boys of twenty-one and the newly made immigrant
30 citizen to “a voice in their own government” while he denies that fundamental right of democracy to thousands of women public school teachers from whom many of these men learn all they know of citizenship and patriotism, to women college
35 presidents, to women who preach in our pulpits, interpret law in our courts, preside over our hospitals, write books and magazines, and serve in every uplifting moral and social enterprise.
Second, the suffrage for women already
40 established in the United States makes woman suffrage for the nation inevitable. When Elihu Root, as president of the American Society of International Law, at the eleventh annual meeting in Washington, April 26, 1917, said, “The world cannot be half
45 democratic and half autocratic. It must be all democratic or all Prussian. There can be no compromise,” he voiced a general truth. Precisely the same intuition has already taught the blindest and most hostile foe of woman suffrage that our
50 nation cannot long continue a condition under which government in half its territory rests upon the consent of half of the people and in the other half upon the consent of all the people; a condition which grants representation to the taxed in half of
55 its territory and denies it in the other half; a condition which permits women in some states to share in the election of the president, senators, and representatives and denies them that privilege in others. It is too obvious to require demonstration
60 that woman suffrage, now covering half our territory, will eventually be ordained in all the nation. No one will deny it. The only question left is when and how will it be completely established.
Third, the leadership of the United States in
65 world democracy compels the enfranchisement of its own women. The maxims of the Declaration were once called “fundamental principles of government.” They are now called “American principles” or even “Americanisms.” They have
70 become the slogans of every movement toward political liberty the world around, of every effort to widen the suffrage for men or women in any land. Not a people, race, or class striving for freedom is there anywhere in the world that has
75 not made our axioms the chief weapon of the struggle. More, all men and women the world around, with farsighted vision into the verities of things, know that the world tragedy of our day is not now being waged over the assassination of an
80 archduke, nor commercial competition, nor national ambitions, nor the freedom of the seas. It is a death grapple between the forces which deny and those which uphold the truths of the Declaration of Independence.
85 “There is one thing mightier than kings and armies”—aye, than Congresses and political parties—“the power of an idea when its time has come to move.” The time for woman suffrage has come. The woman’s hour has struck. If parties
90 prefer to postpone action longer and thus do battle with this idea, they challenge the inevitable. The idea will not perish; the party which opposes it may. Can you afford the risk? Think it over.
1. Catt’s tone is best described as one of
A) conviction.
B) detachment.
C) glibness.
D) foreboding.
Carrie Chapman Catt was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. This passage is adapted from a speech she made in front of the United States Congress in November 1917, arguing for the passage of the 19th amendment granting all women the right to vote. Woman suffrage is inevitable. Three distinct causes made it inevitable.
First, the history of our country. Ours is a nation Line born of revolution, of rebellion against a system of
5 government so securely entrenched in the customs and traditions of human society that in 1776 it seemed impregnable. The American Revolutionists boldly proclaimed the heresies: “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” “Governments derive 10 their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The colonists won, and the nation which was established as a result of their victory has held unfailingly that these two fundamental principles of democratic government are not only the spiritual
15 source of our national existence but have been our chief historic pride and at all times the sheet anchor of our liberties. Eighty years after the Revolution, Abraham Lincoln welded those two maxims into a new one: “Ours is a government of the people, by
20 the people, and for the people.”
With such a history behind it, how can our nation escape the logic it has never failed to follow, when its last unenfranchised class calls for the vote? Behold our Uncle Sam floating the banner with one
25 hand, “Taxation without representation is tyranny,” and with the other seizing the billions of dollars paid in taxes by women to whom he refuses “representation.” Behold him again, welcoming the boys of twenty-one and the newly made immigrant
30 citizen to “a voice in their own government” while he denies that fundamental right of democracy to thousands of women public school teachers from whom many of these men learn all they know of citizenship and patriotism, to women college
35 presidents, to women who preach in our pulpits, interpret law in our courts, preside over our hospitals, write books and magazines, and serve in every uplifting moral and social enterprise.
Second, the suffrage for women already
40 established in the United States makes woman suffrage for the nation inevitable. When Elihu Root, as president of the American Society of International Law, at the eleventh annual meeting in Washington, April 26, 1917, said, “The world cannot be half
45 democratic and half autocratic. It must be all democratic or all Prussian. There can be no compromise,” he voiced a general truth. Precisely the same intuition has already taught the blindest and most hostile foe of woman suffrage that our
50 nation cannot long continue a condition under which government in half its territory rests upon the consent of half of the people and in the other half upon the consent of all the people; a condition which grants representation to the taxed in half of
55 its territory and denies it in the other half; a condition which permits women in some states to share in the election of the president, senators, and representatives and denies them that privilege in others. It is too obvious to require demonstration
60 that woman suffrage, now covering half our territory, will eventually be ordained in all the nation. No one will deny it. The only question left is when and how will it be completely established.
Third, the leadership of the United States in
65 world democracy compels the enfranchisement of its own women. The maxims of the Declaration were once called “fundamental principles of government.” They are now called “American principles” or even “Americanisms.” They have
70 become the slogans of every movement toward political liberty the world around, of every effort to widen the suffrage for men or women in any land. Not a people, race, or class striving for freedom is there anywhere in the world that has
75 not made our axioms the chief weapon of the struggle. More, all men and women the world around, with farsighted vision into the verities of things, know that the world tragedy of our day is not now being waged over the assassination of an
80 archduke, nor commercial competition, nor national ambitions, nor the freedom of the seas. It is a death grapple between the forces which deny and those which uphold the truths of the Declaration of Independence.
85 “There is one thing mightier than kings and armies”—aye, than Congresses and political parties—“the power of an idea when its time has come to move.” The time for woman suffrage has come. The woman’s hour has struck. If parties
90 prefer to postpone action longer and thus do battle with this idea, they challenge the inevitable. The idea will not perish; the party which opposes it may. Can you afford the risk? Think it over.
2. Catt would most likely describe opposition to women’s suffrage as
A) futile.
B) ironic.
C) frightening.
D) unstoppable.
Carrie Chapman Catt was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. This passage is adapted from a speech she made in front of the United States Congress in November 1917, arguing for the passage of the 19th amendment granting all women the right to vote.
Woman suffrage is inevitable. Three distinct
causes made it inevitable.
First, the history of our country. Ours is a nation
Line born of revolution, of rebellion against a system of
5 government so securely entrenched in the customs and traditions of human society that in 1776 it seemed impregnable. The American Revolutionists boldly proclaimed the heresies: “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” “Governments derive
10 their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The colonists won, and the nation which was established as a result of their victory has held unfailingly that these two fundamental principles of democratic government are not only the spiritual
15 source of our national existence but have been our chief historic pride and at all times the sheet anchor of our liberties. Eighty years after the Revolution, Abraham Lincoln welded those two maxims into a new one: “Ours is a government of the people, by
20 the people, and for the people.”
With such a history behind it, how can our nation escape the logic it has never failed to follow, when its last unenfranchised class calls for the vote? Behold our Uncle Sam floating the banner with one
25 hand, “Taxation without representation is tyranny,” and with the other seizing the billions of dollars paid in taxes by women to whom he refuses “representation.” Behold him again, welcoming the boys of twenty-one and the newly made immigrant
30 citizen to “a voice in their own government” while he denies that fundamental right of democracy to thousands of women public school teachers from whom many of these men learn all they know of citizenship and patriotism, to women college
35 presidents, to women who preach in our pulpits, interpret law in our courts, preside over our hospitals, write books and magazines, and serve in every uplifting moral and social enterprise.
Second, the suffrage for women already
40 established in the United States makes woman suffrage for the nation inevitable. When Elihu Root, as president of the American Society of International Law, at the eleventh annual meeting in Washington, April 26, 1917, said, “The world cannot be half
45 democratic and half autocratic. It must be all democratic or all Prussian. There can be no compromise,” he voiced a general truth. Precisely the same intuition has already taught the blindest and most hostile foe of woman suffrage that our
50 nation cannot long continue a condition under which government in half its territory rests upon the consent of half of the people and in the other half upon the consent of all the people; a condition which grants representation to the taxed in half of
55 its territory and denies it in the other half; a condition which permits women in some states to share in the election of the president, senators, and representatives and denies them that privilege in others. It is too obvious to require demonstration
60 that woman suffrage, now covering half our territory, will eventually be ordained in all the nation. No one will deny it. The only question left is when and how will it be completely established.
Third, the leadership of the United States in
65 world democracy compels the enfranchisement of its own women. The maxims of the Declaration were once called “fundamental principles of government.” They are now called “American principles” or even “Americanisms.” They have
70 become the slogans of every movement toward political liberty the world around, of every effort to widen the suffrage for men or women in any land. Not a people, race, or class striving for freedom is there anywhere in the world that has
75 not made our axioms the chief weapon of the struggle. More, all men and women the world around, with farsighted vision into the verities of things, know that the world tragedy of our day is not now being waged over the assassination of an
80 archduke, nor commercial competition, nor national ambitions, nor the freedom of the seas. It is a death grapple between the forces which deny and those which uphold the truths of the Declaration of Independence.
85 “There is one thing mightier than kings and armies”—aye, than Congresses and political parties—“the power of an idea when its time has come to move.” The time for woman suffrage has come. The woman’s hour has struck. If parties
90 prefer to postpone action longer and thus do battle with this idea, they challenge the inevitable. The idea will not perish; the party which opposes it may. Can you afford the risk? Think it over.
3. Which of the following best describes the structure of Catt’s arguments in this passage?
A) Catt summarizes the history of a few violent revolutions, as a subtle warning to those who would stand in the way of woman suffrage.
B) Catt invokes historical evidence to explain why woman suffrage has already prevailed internationally, implying that the same will happen in the United States
C) Catt juxtaposes the compelling rhetoric of great leaders with the grim realities of ever-diminishing liberty and democratic participation.
D) Catt describes historical and contemporary conditions and invokes popular maxims to show how broadly accepted facts and ideas support her position.
Carrie Chapman Catt was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. This passage is adapted from a speech she made in front of the United States Congress in November 1917, arguing for the passage of the 19th amendment granting all women the right to vote.
Woman suffrage is inevitable. Three distinct
causes made it inevitable.
First, the history of our country. Ours is a nation
Line born of revolution, of rebellion against a system of
5 government so securely entrenched in the customs and traditions of human society that in 1776 it seemed impregnable. The American Revolutionists boldly proclaimed the heresies: “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” “Governments derive
10 their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The colonists won, and the nation which was established as a result of their victory has held unfailingly that these two fundamental principles of democratic government are not only the spiritual
15 source of our national existence but have been our chief historic pride and at all times the sheet anchor of our liberties. Eighty years after the Revolution, Abraham Lincoln welded those two maxims into a new one: “Ours is a government of the people, by
20 the people, and for the people.”
With such a history behind it, how can our nation escape the logic it has never failed to follow, when its last unenfranchised class calls for the vote? Behold our Uncle Sam floating the banner with one
25 hand, “Taxation without representation is tyranny,” and with the other seizing the billions of dollars paid in taxes by women to whom he refuses “representation.” Behold him again, welcoming the boys of twenty-one and the newly made immigrant
30 citizen to “a voice in their own government” while he denies that fundamental right of democracy to thousands of women public school teachers from whom many of these men learn all they know of citizenship and patriotism, to women college
35 presidents, to women who preach in our pulpits, interpret law in our courts, preside over our hospitals, write books and magazines, and serve in every uplifting moral and social enterprise.
Second, the suffrage for women already
40 established in the United States makes woman suffrage for the nation inevitable. When Elihu Root, as president of the American Society of International Law, at the eleventh annual meeting in Washington, April 26, 1917, said, “The world cannot be half
45 democratic and half autocratic. It must be all democratic or all Prussian. There can be no compromise,” he voiced a general truth. Precisely the same intuition has already taught the blindest and most hostile foe of woman suffrage that our
50 nation cannot long continue a condition under which government in half its territory rests upon the consent of half of the people and in the other half upon the consent of all the people; a condition which grants representation to the taxed in half of
55 its territory and denies it in the other half; a condition which permits women in some states to share in the election of the president, senators, and representatives and denies them that privilege in others. It is too obvious to require demonstration
60 that woman suffrage, now covering half our territory, will eventually be ordained in all the nation. No one will deny it. The only question left is when and how will it be completely established.
Third, the leadership of the United States in
65 world democracy compels the enfranchisement of its own women. The maxims of the Declaration were once called “fundamental principles of government.” They are now called “American principles” or even “Americanisms.” They have
70 become the slogans of every movement toward political liberty the world around, of every effort to widen the suffrage for men or women in any land. Not a people, race, or class striving for freedom is there anywhere in the world that has
75 not made our axioms the chief weapon of the struggle. More, all men and women the world around, with farsighted vision into the verities of things, know that the world tragedy of our day is not now being waged over the assassination of an
80 archduke, nor commercial competition, nor national ambitions, nor the freedom of the seas. It is a death grapple between the forces which deny and those which uphold the truths of the Declaration of Independence.
85 “There is one thing mightier than kings and armies”—aye, than Congresses and political parties—“the power of an idea when its time has come to move.” The time for woman suffrage has come. The woman’s hour has struck. If parties
90 prefer to postpone action longer and thus do battle with this idea, they challenge the inevitable. The idea will not perish; the party which opposes it may. Can you afford the risk? Think it over.
4. In the first paragraph, Catt discusses the history of the United States in order to
A) emphasize that its founders believed that the right to vote was of paramount importance in a democratic society.
B) demonstrate how much times have changed since its founding.
C) establish that granting women the right to vote isjust as rebellious as the American Revolution.
D) suggest that woman suffrage was the original intention of the founding fathers.
Carrie Chapman Catt was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. This passage is adapted from a speech she made in front of the United States Congress in November 1917, arguing for the passage of the 19th amendment granting all women the right to vote.
Woman suffrage is inevitable. Three distinct
causes made it inevitable.
First, the history of our country. Ours is a nation
Line born of revolution, of rebellion against a system of
5 government so securely entrenched in the customs and traditions of human society that in 1776 it seemed impregnable. The American Revolutionists boldly proclaimed the heresies: “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” “Governments derive
10 their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The colonists won, and the nation which was established as a result of their victory has held unfailingly that these two fundamental principles of democratic government are not only the spiritual
15 source of our national existence but have been our chief historic pride and at all times the sheet anchor of our liberties. Eighty years after the Revolution, Abraham Lincoln welded those two maxims into a new one: “Ours is a government of the people, by
20 the people, and for the people.”
With such a history behind it, how can our nation
escape the logic it has never failed to follow, when
its last unenfranchised class calls for the vote?
Behold our Uncle Sam floating the banner with one
25 hand, “Taxation without representation is tyranny,”
and with the other seizing the billions of dollars paid
in taxes by women to whom he refuses
“representation.” Behold him again, welcoming the
boys of twenty-one and the newly made immigrant
30 citizen to “a voice in their own government” while
he denies that fundamental right of democracy to
thousands of women public school teachers from
whom many of these men learn all they know of
citizenship and patriotism, to women college
35 presidents, to women who preach in our pulpits,
interpret law in our courts, preside over our
hospitals, write books and magazines, and serve in
every uplifting moral and social enterprise.
Second, the suffrage for women already
40 established in the United States makes woman suffrage for the nation inevitable. When Elihu Root, as president of the American Society of International Law, at the eleventh annual meeting in Washington, April 26, 1917, said, “The world cannot be half
45 democratic and half autocratic. It must be all democratic or all Prussian. There can be no compromise,” he voiced a general truth. Precisely the same intuition has already taught the blindest and most hostile foe of woman suffrage that our
50 nation cannot long continue a condition under which government in half its territory rests upon the consent of half of the people and in the other half upon the consent of all the people; a condition which grants representation to the taxed in half of
55 its territory and denies it in the other half; a condition which permits women in some states to share in the election of the president, senators, and representatives and denies them that privilege in others. It is too obvious to require demonstration
60 that woman suffrage, now covering half our territory, will eventually be ordained in all the nation. No one will deny it. The only question left is when and how will it be completely established.
Third, the leadership of the United States in
65 world democracy compels the enfranchisement of its own women. The maxims of the Declaration were once called “fundamental principles of government.” They are now called “American principles” or even “Americanisms.” They have
70 become the slogans of every movement toward political liberty the world around, of every effort to widen the suffrage for men or women in any land. Not a people, race, or class striving for freedom is there anywhere in the world that has
75 not made our axioms the chief weapon of the struggle. More, all men and women the world around, with farsighted vision into the verities of things, know that the world tragedy of our day is not now being waged over the assassination of an
80 archduke, nor commercial competition, nor national ambitions, nor the freedom of the seas. It is a death grapple between the forces which deny and those which uphold the truths of the Declaration of Independence.
85 “There is one thing mightier than kings and armies”—aye, than Congresses and political parties—“the power of an idea when its time has come to move.” The time for woman suffrage has come. The woman’s hour has struck. If parties
90 prefer to postpone action longer and thus do battle with this idea, they challenge the inevitable. The idea will not perish; the party which opposes it may. Can you afford the risk? Think it over.
5.Which situation is most similar to the one described in lines 21-38 (“With such ... enterprise”)?
A) A company offers a health plan to all of its employees, but only offers paid vacation to senior employees.
B) A state government imposes a sales tax on certain types of services, but not on others
C) An organization claims to be totally committed to equal opportunity, but uses discriminatory hiring practices.
D) A politician campaigns on a platform of restricting voting rights to certain groups of people.
Carrie Chapman Catt was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. This passage is adapted from a speech she made in front of the United States Congress in November 1917, arguing for the passage of the 19th amendment granting all women the right to vote.
Woman suffrage is inevitable. Three distinct
causes made it inevitable.
First, the history of our country. Ours is a nation
Line born of revolution, of rebellion against a system of
5 government so securely entrenched in the customs and traditions of human society that in 1776 it seemed impregnable. The American Revolutionists boldly proclaimed the heresies: “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” “Governments derive
10 their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The colonists won, and the nation which was established as a result of their victory has held unfailingly that these two fundamental principles of democratic government are not only the spiritual
15 source of our national existence but have been our chief historic pride and at all times the sheet anchor of our liberties. Eighty years after the Revolution, Abraham Lincoln welded those two maxims into a new one: “Ours is a government of the people, by
20 the people, and for the people.”
With such a history behind it, how can our nation escape the logic it has never failed to follow, when its last unenfranchised class calls for the vote? Behold our Uncle Sam floating the banner with one
25 hand, “Taxation without representation is tyranny,” and with the other seizing the billions of dollars paid in taxes by women to whom he refuses “representation.” Behold him again, welcoming the boys of twenty-one and the newly made immigrant
30 citizen to “a voice in their own government” while he denies that fundamental right of democracy to thousands of women public school teachers from whom many of these men learn all they know of citizenship and patriotism, to women college
35 presidents, to women who preach in our pulpits, interpret law in our courts, preside over our hospitals, write books and magazines, and serve in every uplifting moral and social enterprise.
Second, the suffrage for women already
40 established in the United States makes woman suffrage for the nation inevitable. When Elihu Root, as president of the American Society of International Law, at the eleventh annual meeting in Washington, April 26, 1917, said, “The world cannot be half
45 democratic and half autocratic. It must be all democratic or all Prussian. There can be no compromise,” he voiced a general truth. Precisely the same intuition has already taught the blindest and most hostile foe of woman suffrage that our
50 nation cannot long continue a condition under which government in half its territory rests upon the consent of half of the people and in the other half upon the consent of all the people; a condition which grants representation to the taxed in half of
55 its territory and denies it in the other half; a condition which permits women in some states to share in the election of the president, senators, and representatives and denies them that privilege in others. It is too obvious to require demonstration
60 that woman suffrage, now covering half our territory, will eventually be ordained in all the nation. No one will deny it. The only question left is when and how will it be completely established.
Third, the leadership of the United States in
65 world democracy compels the enfranchisement of its own women. The maxims of the Declaration were once called “fundamental principles of government.” They are now called “American principles” or even “Americanisms.” They have
70 become the slogans of every movement toward political liberty the world around, of every effort to widen the suffrage for men or women in any land. Not a people, race, or class striving for freedom is there anywhere in the world that has
75 not made our axioms the chief weapon of the struggle. More, all men and women the world around, with farsighted vision into the verities of things, know that the world tragedy of our day is not now being waged over the assassination of an
80 archduke, nor commercial competition, nor national ambitions, nor the freedom of the seas. It is a death grapple between the forces which deny and those which uphold the truths of the Declaration of Independence.
85 “There is one thing mightier than kings and armies”—aye, than Congresses and political parties—“the power of an idea when its time has come to move.” The time for woman suffrage has come. The woman’s hour has struck. If parties
90 prefer to postpone action longer and thus do battle with this idea, they challenge the inevitable. The idea will not perish; the party which opposes it may. Can you afford the risk? Think it over.
6.Which of the following provides the best summary of the arguments in the fourth paragraph (lines 39-64)?
A) The rest of the world has already given women the right to vote, so the States must do so as well.
B) Half of the states already allow women to vote, creating an imperative to allow suffrage in the other states.
C) The only alternative to democracy is autocracy, and so we must persevere in expanding the vote.
D) We must follow the example of well-known leaders such as Elihu Root who have come out in support of suffrage.
Carrie Chapman Catt was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. This passage is adapted from a speech she made in front of the United States Congress in November 1917, arguing for the passage of the 19th amendment granting all women the right to vote.
Woman suffrage is inevitable. Three distinct
causes made it inevitable.
First, the history of our country. Ours is a nation
Line born of revolution, of rebellion against a system of
5 government so securely entrenched in the customs and traditions of human society that in 1776 it seemed impregnable. The American Revolutionists boldly proclaimed the heresies: “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” “Governments derive
10 their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The colonists won, and the nation which was established as a result of their victory has held unfailingly that these two fundamental principles of democratic government are not only the spiritual
15 source of our national existence but have been our chief historic pride and at all times the sheet anchor of our liberties. Eighty years after the Revolution, Abraham Lincoln welded those two maxims into a new one: “Ours is a government of the people, by
20 the people, and for the people.”
With such a history behind it, how can our nation escape the logic it has never failed to follow, when its last unenfranchised class calls for the vote? Behold our Uncle Sam floating the banner with one
25 hand, “Taxation without representation is tyranny,” and with the other seizing the billions of dollars paid in taxes by women to whom he refuses “representation.” Behold him again, welcoming the boys of twenty-one and the newly made immigrant
30 citizen to “a voice in their own government” while he denies that fundamental right of democracy to thousands of women public school teachers from whom many of these men learn all they know of citizenship and patriotism, to women college
35 presidents, to women who preach in our pulpits, interpret law in our courts, preside over our hospitals, write books and magazines, and serve in every uplifting moral and social enterprise.
Second, the suffrage for women already
40 established in the United States makes woman suffrage for the nation inevitable. When Elihu Root, as president of the American Society of International Law, at the eleventh annual meeting in Washington, April 26, 1917, said, “The world cannot be half
45 democratic and half autocratic. It must be all democratic or all Prussian. There can be no compromise,” he voiced a general truth. Precisely the same intuition has already taught the blindest and most hostile foe of woman suffrage that our
50 nation cannot long continue a condition under which government in half its territory rests upon the consent of half of the people and in the other half upon the consent of all the people; a condition which grants representation to the taxed in half of
55 its territory and denies it in the other half; a condition which permits women in some states to share in the election of the president, senators, and representatives and denies them that privilege in others. It is too obvious to require demonstration
60 that woman suffrage, now covering half our
territory, will eventually be ordained in all the
nation. No one will deny it. The only question left
is when and how will it be completely established.
Third, the leadership of the United States in
65 world democracy compels the enfranchisement of
its own women. The maxims of the Declaration
were once called “fundamental principles of
government.” They are now called “American
principles” or even “Americanisms.” They have
70 become the slogans of every movement toward political liberty the world around, of every effort to widen the suffrage for men or women in any land. Not a people, race, or class striving for freedom is there anywhere in the world that has
75 not made our axioms the chief weapon of the struggle. More, all men and women the world around, with farsighted vision into the verities of things, know that the world tragedy of our day is not now being waged over the assassination of an
80 archduke, nor commercial competition, nor national ambitions, nor the freedom of the seas. It is a death grapple between the forces which deny and those which uphold the truths of the Declaration of Independence.
85 “There is one thing mightier than kings and armies”—aye, than Congresses and political parties—“the power of an idea when its time has come to move.” The time for woman suffrage has come. The woman’s hour has struck. If parties
90 prefer to postpone action longer and thus do battle with this idea, they challenge the inevitable. The idea will not perish; the party which opposes it may. Can you afford the risk? Think it over.
7.As it is used in line 63, “established” most nearly means
A) instituted.
B) demonstrated.
C) certified.
D) proven.
Carrie Chapman Catt was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. This passage is adapted from a speech she made in front of the United States Congress in November 1917, arguing for the passage of the 19th amendment granting all women the right to vote.
Woman suffrage is inevitable. Three distinct
causes made it inevitable.
First, the history of our country. Ours is a nation
Line born of revolution, of rebellion against a system of
5 government so securely entrenched in the customs and traditions of human society that in 1776 it seemed impregnable. The American Revolutionists boldly proclaimed the heresies: “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” “Governments derive
10 their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The colonists won, and the nation which was established as a result of their victory has held unfailingly that these two fundamental principles of democratic government are not only the spiritual
15 source of our national existence but have been our chief historic pride and at all times the sheet anchor of our liberties. Eighty years after the Revolution, Abraham Lincoln welded those two maxims into a new one: “Ours is a government of the people, by
20 the people, and for the people.”
With such a history behind it, how can our nation escape the logic it has never failed to follow, when its last unenfranchised class calls for the vote? Behold our Uncle Sam floating the banner with one
25 hand, “Taxation without representation is tyranny,” and with the other seizing the billions of dollars paid in taxes by women to whom he refuses “representation.” Behold him again, welcoming the boys of twenty-one and the newly made immigrant
30 citizen to “a voice in their own government” while he denies that fundamental right of democracy to thousands of women public school teachers from whom many of these men learn all they know of citizenship and patriotism, to women college
35 presidents, to women who preach in our pulpits, interpret law in our courts, preside over our hospitals, write books and magazines, and serve in every uplifting moral and social enterprise.
Second, the suffrage for women already
40 established in the United States makes woman suffrage for the nation inevitable. When Elihu Root, as president of the American Society of International Law, at the eleventh annual meeting in Washington, April 26, 1917, said, “The world cannot be half
45 democratic and half autocratic. It must be all democratic or all Prussian. There can be no compromise,” he voiced a general truth. Precisely the same intuition has already taught the blindest and most hostile foe of woman suffrage that our
50 nation cannot long continue a condition under which government in half its territory rests upon the consent of half of the people and in the other half upon the consent of all the people; a condition which grants representation to the taxed in half of
55 its territory and denies it in the other half; a condition which permits women in some states to share in the election of the president, senators, and representatives and denies them that privilege in others. It is too obvious to require demonstration
60 that woman suffrage, now covering half our
territory, will eventually be ordained in all the
nation. No one will deny it. The only question left
is when and how will it be completely established.
Third, the leadership of the United States in
65 world democracy compels the enfranchisement of
its own women. The maxims of the Declaration
were once called “fundamental principles of
government.” They are now called “American
principles” or even “Americanisms.” They have
70 become the slogans of every movement toward political liberty the world around, of every effort to widen the suffrage for men or women in any land. Not a people, race, or class striving for freedom is there anywhere in the world that has
75 not made our axioms the chief weapon of the struggle. More, all men and women the world around, with farsighted vision into the verities of things, know that the world tragedy of our day is not now being waged over the assassination of an
80 archduke, nor commercial competition, nor national ambitions, nor the freedom of the seas. It is a death grapple between the forces which deny and those which uphold the truths of the Declaration of Independence.
85 “There is one thing mightier than kings and armies”—aye, than Congresses and political parties—“the power of an idea when its time has come to move.” The time for woman suffrage has come. The woman’s hour has struck. If parties
90 prefer to postpone action longer and thus do battle with this idea, they challenge the inevitable. The idea will not perish; the party which opposes it may. Can you afford the risk? Think it over.
8.Catt suggests that it will be in the interests of political parties to support woman suffrage because
A) the more people who are allowed to vote, the more votes each party will receive.
B) embracing suffrage for women will establish the United States as a world leader.
C) opposing suffrage for women will hurt political parties in the long run.
D) the Founding Fathers intended for all US persons to be allowed to vote eventually.
Carrie Chapman Catt was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. This passage is adapted from a speech she made in front of the United States Congress in November 1917, arguing for the passage of the 19th amendment granting all women the right to vote.
Woman suffrage is inevitable. Three distinct
causes made it inevitable.
First, the history of our country. Ours is a nation
Line born of revolution, of rebellion against a system of
5 government so securely entrenched in the customs and traditions of human society that in 1776 it seemed impregnable. The American Revolutionists boldly proclaimed the heresies: “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” “Governments derive
10 their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The colonists won, and the nation which was established as a result of their victory has held unfailingly that these two fundamental principles of democratic government are not only the spiritual
15 source of our national existence but have been our chief historic pride and at all times the sheet anchor of our liberties. Eighty years after the Revolution, Abraham Lincoln welded those two maxims into a new one: “Ours is a government of the people, by
20 the people, and for the people.”
With such a history behind it, how can our nation escape the logic it has never failed to follow, when its last unenfranchised class calls for the vote? Behold our Uncle Sam floating the banner with one
25 hand, “Taxation without representation is tyranny,” and with the other seizing the billions of dollars paid in taxes by women to whom he refuses “representation.” Behold him again, welcoming the boys of twenty-one and the newly made immigrant
30 citizen to “a voice in their own government” while he denies that fundamental right of democracy to thousands of women public school teachers from whom many of these men learn all they know of citizenship and patriotism, to women college
35 presidents, to women who preach in our pulpits, interpret law in our courts, preside over our hospitals, write books and magazines, and serve in every uplifting moral and social enterprise.
Second, the suffrage for women already
40 established in the United States makes woman suffrage for the nation inevitable. When Elihu Root, as president of the American Society of International Law, at the eleventh annual meeting in Washington, April 26, 1917, said, “The world cannot be half
45 democratic and half autocratic. It must be all democratic or all Prussian. There can be no compromise,” he voiced a general truth. Precisely the same intuition has already taught the blindest and most hostile foe of woman suffrage that our
50 nation cannot long continue a condition under which government in half its territory rests upon the consent of half of the people and in the other half upon the consent of all the people; a condition which grants representation to the taxed in half of
55 its territory and denies it in the other half; a condition which permits women in some states to share in the election of the president, senators, and representatives and denies them that privilege in others. It is too obvious to require demonstration
60 that woman suffrage, now covering half our
territory, will eventually be ordained in all the
nation. No one will deny it. The only question left
is when and how will it be completely established.
Third, the leadership of the United States in
65 world democracy compels the enfranchisement of
its own women. The maxims of the Declaration
were once called “fundamental principles of
government.” They are now called “American
principles” or even “Americanisms.” They have
70 become the slogans of every movement toward political liberty the world around, of every effort to widen the suffrage for men or women in any land. Not a people, race, or class striving for freedom is there anywhere in the world that has
75 not made our axioms the chief weapon of the struggle. More, all men and women the world around, with farsighted vision into the verities of things, know that the world tragedy of our day is not now being waged over the assassination of an
80 archduke, nor commercial competition, nor national ambitions, nor the freedom of the seas. It is a death grapple between the forces which deny and those which uphold the truths of the Declaration of Independence.
85 “There is one thing mightier than kings and armies”—aye, than Congresses and political parties—“the power of an idea when its time has come to move.” The time for woman suffrage has come. The woman’s hour has struck. If parties
90 prefer to postpone action longer and thus do battle with this idea, they challenge the inevitable. The idea will not perish; the party which opposes it may. Can you afford the risk? Think it over.
9.Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
(Catt suggests that it will be in the interests of political parties to support woman suffrage because)
A) Lines 64-66 (“Third ... Own women”)
B) Lines 69-73 (“They have ... land”)
C) Lines 76-81 (“More ... theseas”)
D) Lines 91-93 (“The idea ... may”)
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The American Revolutionists boldly proclaimed the heresies: “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” “Governments derive 10 their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The colonists won, and the nation which was established as a result of their victory has held unfailingly that these two fundamental principles of democratic government are not only the spiritual 15 source of our national existence but have been our chief historic pride and at all times the sheet anchor of our liberties. Eighty years after the Revolution, Abraham Lincoln welded those two maxims into a new one: “Ours is a government of the people, by 20 the people, and for the people.” With such a history behind it, how can our nation escape the logic it has never failed to follow, when its last unenfranchised class calls for the vote? Behold our Uncle Sam floating the banner with one 25 hand, “Taxation without representation is tyranny,” and with the other seizing the billions of dollars paid in taxes by women to whom he refuses “representation.” Behold him again, welcoming the boys of twenty-one and the newly made immigrant 30 citizen to “a voice in their own government” while he denies that fundamental right of democracy to thousands of women public school teachers from whom many of these men learn all they know of citizenship and patriotism, to women college 35 presidents, to women who preach in our pulpits, interpret law in our courts, preside over our hospitals, write books and magazines, and serve in every uplifting moral and social enterprise. Second, the suffrage for women already 40 established in the United States makes woman suffrage for the nation inevitable. When Elihu Root, as president of the American Society of International Law, at the eleventh annual meeting in Washington, April 26, 1917, said, “The world cannot be half 45 democratic and half autocratic. It must be all democratic or all Prussian. There can be no compromise,” he voiced a general truth. Precisely the same intuition has already taught the blindest and most hostile foe of woman suffrage that our 50 nation cannot long continue a condition under which government in half its territory rests upon the consent of half of the people and in the other half upon the consent of all the people; a condition which grants representation to the taxed in half of 55 its territory and denies it in the other half; a condition which permits women in some states to share in the election of the president, senators, and representatives and denies them that privilege in others. It is too obvious to require demonstration 60 that woman suffrage, now covering half our territory, will eventually be ordained in all the nation. No one will deny it. The only question left is when and how will it be completely established. Third, the leadership of the United States in 65 world democracy compels the enfranchisement of its own women. The maxims of the Declaration were once called “fundamental principles of government.” They are now called “American principles” or even “Americanisms.” They have 70 become the slogans of every movement toward political liberty the world around, of every effort to widen the suffrage for men or women in any land. Not a people, race, or class striving for freedom is there anywhere in the world that has 75 not made our axioms the chief weapon of the struggle. More, all men and women the world around, with farsighted vision into the verities of things, know that the world tragedy of our day is not now being waged over the assassination of an 80 archduke, nor commercial competition, nor national ambitions, nor the freedom of the seas. It is a death grapple between the forces which deny and those which uphold the truths of the Declaration of Independence. 85 “There is one thing mightier than kings and armies”—aye, than Congresses and political parties—“the power of an idea when its time has come to move.” The time for woman suffrage has come. The woman’s hour has struck. If parties 90 prefer to postpone action longer and thus do battle with this idea, they challenge the inevitable. The idea will not perish; the party which opposes it may. Can you afford the risk? Think it over. 1. Catt’s tone is best described as one of, Carrie Chapman Catt was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. This passage is adapted from a speech she made in front of the United States Congress in November 1917, arguing for the passage of the 19th amendment granting all women the right to vote. Woman suffrage is inevitable. Three distinct causes made it inevitable. First, the history of our country. Ours is a nation Line born of revolution, of rebellion against a system of 5 government so securely entrenched in the customs and traditions of human society that in 1776 it seemed impregnable. The American Revolutionists boldly proclaimed the heresies: “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” “Governments derive 10 their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The colonists won, and the nation which was established as a result of their victory has held unfailingly that these two fundamental principles of democratic government are not only the spiritual 15 source of our national existence but have been our chief historic pride and at all times the sheet anchor of our liberties. Eighty years after the Revolution, Abraham Lincoln welded those two maxims into a new one: “Ours is a government of the people, by 20 the people, and for the people.” With such a history behind it, how can our nation escape the logic it has never failed to follow, when its last unenfranchised class calls for the vote? Behold our Uncle Sam floating the banner with one 25 hand, “Taxation without representation is tyranny,” and with the other seizing the billions of dollars paid in taxes by women to whom he refuses “representation.” Behold him again, welcoming the boys of twenty-one and the newly made immigrant 30 citizen to “a voice in their own government” while he denies that fundamental right of democracy to thousands of women public school teachers from whom many of these men learn all they know of citizenship and patriotism, to women college 35 presidents, to women who preach in our pulpits, interpret law in our courts, preside over our hospitals, write books and magazines, and serve in every uplifting moral and social enterprise. Second, the suffrage for women already 40 established in the United States makes woman suffrage for the nation inevitable. When Elihu Root, as president of the American Society of International Law, at the eleventh annual meeting in Washington, April 26, 1917, said, “The world cannot be half 45 democratic and half autocratic. It must be all democratic or all Prussian. There can be no compromise,” he voiced a general truth. Precisely the same intuition has already taught the blindest and most hostile foe of woman suffrage that our 50 nation cannot long continue a condition under which government in half its territory rests upon the consent of half of the people and in the other half upon the consent of all the people; a condition which grants representation to the taxed in half of 55 its territory and denies it in the other half; a condition which permits women in some states to share in the election of the president, senators, and representatives and denies them that privilege in others. It is too obvious to require demonstration 60 that woman suffrage, now covering half our territory, will eventually be ordained in all the nation. No one will deny it. The only question left is when and how will it be completely established. Third, the leadership of the United States in 65 world democracy compels the enfranchisement of its own women. The maxims of the Declaration were once called “fundamental principles of government.” They are now called “American principles” or even “Americanisms.” They have 70 become the slogans of every movement toward political liberty the world around, of every effort to widen the suffrage for men or women in any land. Not a people, race, or class striving for freedom is there anywhere in the world that has 75 not made our axioms the chief weapon of the struggle. More, all men and women the world around, with farsighted vision into the verities of things, know that the world tragedy of our day is not now being waged over the assassination of an 80 archduke, nor commercial competition, nor national ambitions, nor the freedom of the seas. It is a death grapple between the forces which deny and those which uphold the truths of the Declaration of Independence. 85 “There is one thing mightier than kings and armies”—aye, than Congresses and political parties—“the power of an idea when its time has come to move.” The time for woman suffrage has come. The woman’s hour has struck. If parties 90 prefer to postpone action longer and thus do battle with this idea, they challenge the inevitable. The idea will not perish; the party which opposes it may. Can you afford the risk? Think it over. 2. Catt would most likely describe opposition to women’s suffrage as, Carrie Chapman Catt was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. This passage is adapted from a speech she made in front of the United States Congress in November 1917, arguing for the passage of the 19th amendment granting all women the right to vote. Woman suffrage is inevitable. Three distinct causes made it inevitable. First, the history of our country. Ours is a nation Line born of revolution, of rebellion against a system of 5 government so securely entrenched in the customs and traditions of human society that in 1776 it seemed impregnable. The American Revolutionists boldly proclaimed the heresies: “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” “Governments derive 10 their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The colonists won, and the nation which was established as a result of their victory has held unfailingly that these two fundamental principles of democratic government are not only the spiritual 15 source of our national existence but have been our chief historic pride and at all times the sheet anchor of our liberties. Eighty years after the Revolution, Abraham Lincoln welded those two maxims into a new one: “Ours is a government of the people, by 20 the people, and for the people.” With such a history behind it, how can our nation escape the logic it has never failed to follow, when its last unenfranchised class calls for the vote? Behold our Uncle Sam floating the banner with one 25 hand, “Taxation without representation is tyranny,” and with the other seizing the billions of dollars paid in taxes by women to whom he refuses “representation.” Behold him again, welcoming the boys of twenty-one and the newly made immigrant 30 citizen to “a voice in their own government” while he denies that fundamental right of democracy to thousands of women public school teachers from whom many of these men learn all they know of citizenship and patriotism, to women college 35 presidents, to women who preach in our pulpits, interpret law in our courts, preside over our hospitals, write books and magazines, and serve in every uplifting moral and social enterprise. Second, the suffrage for women already 40 established in the United States makes woman suffrage for the nation inevitable. When Elihu Root, as president of the American Society of International Law, at the eleventh annual meeting in Washington, April 26, 1917, said, “The world cannot be half 45 democratic and half autocratic. It must be all democratic or all Prussian. There can be no compromise,” he voiced a general truth. Precisely the same intuition has already taught the blindest and most hostile foe of woman suffrage that our 50 nation cannot long continue a condition under which government in half its territory rests upon the consent of half of the people and in the other half upon the consent of all the people; a condition which grants representation to the taxed in half of 55 its territory and denies it in the other half; a condition which permits women in some states to share in the election of the president, senators, and representatives and denies them that privilege in others. It is too obvious to require demonstration 60 that woman suffrage, now covering half our territory, will eventually be ordained in all the nation. No one will deny it. The only question left is when and how will it be completely established. Third, the leadership of the United States in 65 world democracy compels the enfranchisement of its own women. The maxims of the Declaration were once called “fundamental principles of government.” They are now called “American principles” or even “Americanisms.” They have 70 become the slogans of every movement toward political liberty the world around, of every effort to widen the suffrage for men or women in any land. Not a people, race, or class striving for freedom is there anywhere in the world that has 75 not made our axioms the chief weapon of the struggle. More, all men and women the world around, with farsighted vision into the verities of things, know that the world tragedy of our day is not now being waged over the assassination of an 80 archduke, nor commercial competition, nor national ambitions, nor the freedom of the seas. It is a death grapple between the forces which deny and those which uphold the truths of the Declaration of Independence. 85 “There is one thing mightier than kings and armies”—aye, than Congresses and political parties—“the power of an idea when its time has come to move.” The time for woman suffrage has come. The woman’s hour has struck. If parties 90 prefer to postpone action longer and thus do battle with this idea, they challenge the inevitable. The idea will not perish; the party which opposes it may. Can you afford the risk? Think it over. 3. Which of the following best describes the structure of Catt’s arguments in this passage?","img":"https://cdn.poll-maker.com/49-1679754/q1.jpg?sz=1200"}
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