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merican Revolution, living to complete it in 1805. Abigail Adams rejected literary ambitions for herself and never lost her sense of inferiority about her poor spelling and ignorance of Latin. Yet her letters, rather than Warren's plays and verse, have become the greater source in documenting signs of a dawning feminist consciousness.
Abigail Adams welcomed every advance for women and foresaw more than could be realized in her life time. She urged her husband, the second President of United States, to “remember the ladies” in the new code of laws, and to give married women protection from tyrannical husbands. As she pointed out, the terrible deficiencies in education for women were felt at all levels, she finally made the significant request to her husband, that the new constitution “be distinguished from Learning and Virtue”, and suggested that “if we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.” This awareness of education's value, rooted in the Enlightenment faith in human potentiality, had feminist implications before there was a feminist ideology.
11.The main topic of the passage is .
A. Abigail Adams' life
B. women historians
C. early sources of feminist thinking
D. the literary ambitions of Judith Sargeant Murray
12. What does the author mean by the statement that Abigail Adams “foresaw more than could be realized in her lifetime” (lines 1—2, para. 2)?
A. No progress was made during her life.
B. She made predictions that eventually came true.
C. Her life was very short.
D. She didn't want to become a public figure.
13. Judith Sargeant Murray's position can be best expressed by .
A. women should be well educated in order to support themselves
B. women's rights must be protected by new laws
C. the accomplishments of women are ignored in most historical documents
D. women need to become more active in political affairs
14. What did Mercy Warren, Abigail Adams, and Judith Sargeant Murray have in common?
A. They all wrote books.
B. They were all responsible for the financial support of their families.
C. They were all interested in women's accomplishments.
D. They all had influential families.
15. It can be inferred from the passage that .
A. American women were not treated as equals of their male counterparts in the 18th century
B. there were many female scholar
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