E NGLISH GRADE A FULLY ANSWERED
QUESTION AND ANSWER
Sometimes a woman would tell me that the feeling gets so strong she runs out of the
house and walks through the streets. Or she stays inside her house and cries. Or her
children tell her a joke, and she doesn't laugh because she doesn't hear it.
Which best describes the tone of the excerpt? - (correct answer)concerned
But the actual unhappiness of the American housewife was suddenly being reported—
from The New York Times and Newsweek to Good Housekeeping and CBS television
("The Trapped Housewife"), although almost everybody who talked about it found some
superficial reason to dismiss it.
Which best describes the connotation of the word "superficial" in the excerpt? - (correct
answer)It has a negative connotation, because it suggests that the reasons used to
dismiss the problem were not meaningful.
COUNTY ATTORNEY (with the gallantry of a young politician). And yet, for all their
worries, what would we do without the ladies? (The women do not unbend. He goes to
the sink, takes a dipperful of water from the pail and, pouring it into a basin, washes his
hands. Starts to wipe them on the roller-towel, turns it for a cleaner place.) Dirty towels!
(Kicks his foot against the pans under the sink.) Not much of a housekeeper, would you
say, ladies?
The excerpt contributes most to which feminist theme? - (correct answer)Women are
often expected to conform to roles set by society.
For over fifteen years there was no word of this yearning in the millions of words written
about women, for women, in all the columns, books and articles by experts telling
women their role was to seek fulfillment as wives and mothers. Over and over women
heard in voices of tradition and of Freudian sophistication that they could desire no
greater destiny than to glory in their own femininity.
QUESTION AND ANSWER
Sometimes a woman would tell me that the feeling gets so strong she runs out of the
house and walks through the streets. Or she stays inside her house and cries. Or her
children tell her a joke, and she doesn't laugh because she doesn't hear it.
Which best describes the tone of the excerpt? - (correct answer)concerned
But the actual unhappiness of the American housewife was suddenly being reported—
from The New York Times and Newsweek to Good Housekeeping and CBS television
("The Trapped Housewife"), although almost everybody who talked about it found some
superficial reason to dismiss it.
Which best describes the connotation of the word "superficial" in the excerpt? - (correct
answer)It has a negative connotation, because it suggests that the reasons used to
dismiss the problem were not meaningful.
COUNTY ATTORNEY (with the gallantry of a young politician). And yet, for all their
worries, what would we do without the ladies? (The women do not unbend. He goes to
the sink, takes a dipperful of water from the pail and, pouring it into a basin, washes his
hands. Starts to wipe them on the roller-towel, turns it for a cleaner place.) Dirty towels!
(Kicks his foot against the pans under the sink.) Not much of a housekeeper, would you
say, ladies?
The excerpt contributes most to which feminist theme? - (correct answer)Women are
often expected to conform to roles set by society.
For over fifteen years there was no word of this yearning in the millions of words written
about women, for women, in all the columns, books and articles by experts telling
women their role was to seek fulfillment as wives and mothers. Over and over women
heard in voices of tradition and of Freudian sophistication that they could desire no
greater destiny than to glory in their own femininity.
