Read the passage.
from the young breadwinners
If the mothers and the teachers in Georgia could vote, would the Georgia Legislature have refused at every session for the last three years to stop the work in the mills of children under 12 years of age?
Would the New Jersey Legislature have passed that shameful repeal bill enabling girls of 14 years to work all night, if the mothers in New Jersey were enfranchised? Until the mothers in the great industrial states are enfranchised we shall none of us be able to free our consciences from participation in this great evil. No one in this room tonight can feel free from such participation. The children make our shoes in the shoe factories; they knit our stockings . . . in the cotton mills. Children braid straw for our hats, they spin and weave the silk and velvet wherewith we trim our hats; they stamp buckles and metal ornaments of all kinds, as well as pins and hat pins. Under the sweating system, tiny children make artificial flowers and neckwear for us to buy. They carry bundles of garments from the factories to the tenements, little beasts of burden, robbed of school life that they may work for us.
This question has two parts. Answer Part A, and then answer Part B.
part A
What is the author's main claim?
Question 1 Answer options with 4 options
1.
Women want to be the ones to work jobs in manufacturing.
2.
Children who work in factories are not able to do certain jobs.
3.
Children who work in manufacturing deserve better circumstances.
4.
Women would not allow children to work if they had the right to vote.
Question 2
Part B
Which detail from paragraph 2 best supports the correct answer from Part A?
Question 2 Answer options with 4 options
1.
"Would the New Jersey Legislature have passed that shameful repeal bill enabling girls of 14 years to work all night, if the mothers in New Jersey were enfranchised?"
2.
"No one in this room tonight can feel free from such participation."
3.
"Children braid straw for our hats, they spin and weave the silk and velvet wherewith we trim our hats"
4.
"they stamp buckles and metal ornaments of all kinds, as well as pins and hat pins"
Part A: 3. Children who work in manufacturing deserve better circumstances.
Part B: 1. "Would the New Jersey Legislature have passed that shameful repeal bill enabling girls of 14 years to work all night, if the mothers in New Jersey were enfranchised?"