This passage is taken from "The Revolt of Mother" by Mary Freeman.
"Sarah Penn's face as she rolled her ples had that expression of meek vigor which might have
characterized one of the New Testament saints. She was making mince-ples. Her husband,
Adoniram Penn, liked them better than any other kind. She baked twice a week. Adoniram often
liked a piece of pie between meals. She hurried this morning. It had been later than usual when
she began, and she wanted to have a pie baked for dinner. However deep a resentment she might
be forced to hold against her husband, she would never fail in sedulous attention to his wants.
Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors. Sarah
Penn's showed itself to-day in flaky dishes of pastry. So she made the pies faithfully, while across
the table she could see, when she glanced up from her work, the sight that rankled in her patient
and steadfast soul-the digging of the cellar of the new barn in the place where Adoniram forty
years ago had promised her their new house should stand."
Passage Two
This passage is taken from Catherine Beecher's A Treatise on Domestic Economy.
The tendencies of democratic institutions, in reference to the rights and interests of the female
sex, have been fully developed in the United States; and it is in this aspect, that the subject is one
of peculiar interest to American women. In this Country, it is established, both by opinion and by
practice, that women have an equal interest in all social and civil concerns; and that no domestic,
civil, or political, institution is right, that sacrifices her interest to promote that of the other sex.
But in order to secure her the more firmly in all these privileges, it is decided, that in the domestic
relation, she take a subordinate station, and that, in civil and political concerns, her interests be
intrusted to the other sex, without her taking any part in voting, or in making and administering
laws. The result of this order of things has been fairly tested, and is thus portrayed by M. De
Tocqueville, a writer, who, for intelligence, fidelity, and ability, ranks second to none....
It appears, then, that it is in America, alone, that women are raised to an equality with the other
sex and that, both in theory and practice, their interests are regarded as of equal value. They are
made subordinate in station, only where a regard to their best interests demands it, while, as if in
compensation for this, by custom and courtesy, they are always treated as superiors. Universally,
in this Country, through every class of society, precedence is given to woman, in all the comforts,
conveniences, and courtesies, of life.
In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they
sympathize with their family and personal friends; but in all cases, in which they do feel a concern,
their opinions and feelings have a consideration, equal, or even superior, to that of the other sex."
Which statement best describes the relationship between the two passages? (5 points)
Passage One uses irony to reveal a message that opposes the message in Passage Two.
Passage One uses satire to reveal a message that opposes the message in Passage Two.
O Passage One uses irony to reveal a message that supports the message in Passage Two.
Passage One uses satire to reveal a message that supports the message in Passage Two.