Address to Congress Quiz

Who is the speaker?

• Susan B. Anthony

• Alice Paul

• Lucy Stone

• Carrie Chapman Catt

What does the word 'impregnable' mean?

• Difficult to defeat

• Prone to change

• Focused on its people

• Set in its ways

Suffrage is defined as the right to ________________.

• speak

• bear arms

• vote

• own property

1. “To you and the supporters of our cause in Senate and House, the suffragists of the nation express their grateful thanks. We are more truly appreciative of all you have done than any words can express.” 

This excerpt from the speech is an example of which persuasive appeal?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

1. How many claims does the speaker make in her speech?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

What does the word “unenfranchised” mean?

• not given ta privilege

• not able to speak

• discriminated against

• an immigrant

The speaker begins paragraphs 8-11 with the phrase “Do you realize…” Why is this structure effective in helping Catts make her argument?

• It allows the reader to identify Catt’s strongest argument for suffrage.

• 1. It emphasizes the multitude of injustices and ironies against women brought upon by disenfranchisement. 

• It questions the knowledge of the members of Congress, suggesting their ignorance.

• It asks Congress to consider the ways in which suffrage for women would improve the welfare of all Americans.

1. “Eighty years after the Revolution, Abraham Lincoln welded those two maxims into a new one: ‘Ours is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.’”

This excerpt from the speech is an example of which persuasive appeal?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

If something is inevitable, it is:

• uncertain

• unavoidable

• avoidable

• doubtful

1. Behold him again, welcoming the boys of twenty-one and the newly made immigrant citizen to a ‘voice in their own government’ while he denies that 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 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. Is there a single man who can justify such inequality of treatment, such outrageous discrimination? Not one……” 

This excerpt from the speech is an example of which persuasive appeal?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos