Questions Refer to the Passage Below

question 72

Multiple Choice

Questions refer to the passage below.
Lecture on Industrialization and Women's Freedom in Egypt, Cairo, 1909
"Men say when we become educated we shall push them out of work and abandon the role for which God created us. But isn't it rather men who have pushed women out of work? Before, women used to spin and to weave cloth for clothes for themselves and their children, but men invented machines for spinning and weaving and put women out of work. . . . Since male inventors and workers have taken away a lot of our work should we waste our time in idleness or seek other work to occupy us? Of course, we should do the latter. . . . Obviously, I am not urging women to neglect their home and children to go out and become lawyers or judges or railway engineers. But if any of us wish to work in such professions our personal freedom should not be infringed."
Bahithat al-Badiya, an educated, upper-class Egyptian woman, speaking to a female audience
-Which of the following might affect the speaker's reliability as a source?

• A) As a woman, the speaker is under the control of her husband; her opinions may not be her own.
• B) Since the speaker is Egyptian, she cannot represent the views of women in other societies.
• C) The speaker is an upper-class, educated women and thus may not represent the views of a majority of Egyptian women.
• D) Women and children were already becoming workers in textile factories.

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