GWD 21-Q15 to Q18:
In her account of unmarried
women’s experiences in colonial
Philadelphia, Wulf argues that edu-
Line cated young women, particularly
(5) Quakers, engaged in resistance to
patriarchal marriage by exchanging
poetry critical of marriage, copying
verse into their commonplace
books. Wulf suggests that this
(10) critique circulated beyond the
daughters of the Quaker elite
and middle class, whose com-
monplace books she mines,
proposing that Quaker schools
(15) brought it to many poor female
students of diverse backgrounds.
Here Wulf probably overstates
Quaker schools’ impact. At least
three years’ study would be
(20) necessary to achieve the literacy
competence necessary to grapple
with the material she analyzes.
In 1765, the year Wulf uses to
demonstrate the diversity of
(25) Philadelphia’s Quaker schools,
128 students enrolled in these
schools. Refining Wulf’s numbers
by the information she provides
on religious affiliation, gender, and
(30) length of study, it appears that only
about 17 poor non-Quaker girls
were educated in Philadelphia’s
Quaker schools for three years or
longer. While Wulf is correct that
(35) a critique of patriarchal marriage
circulated broadly, Quaker schools
probably cannot be credited with
instilling these ideas in the lower
classes. Popular literary satires
(40) on marriage had already landed
on fertile ground in a multiethnic
population that embodied a wide
range of marital beliefs and
practices. These ethnic- and
(45) class-based traditions them-
selves challenged the legitimacy
of patriarchal marriage.
Q17:
The author of the passage implies which of the following about the poetry mentioned in the first paragraph?
- Wulf exaggerates the degree to which young women from an elite background regarded the poetry as providing a critique of marriage.
- The circulation of the poetry was confined to young Quaker women.
- Young women copied the poetry into their commonplace books because they interpreted it as providing a desirable model of unmarried life.
- The poetry’s capacity to influence popular attitudes was restricted by the degree of literacy necessary to comprehend it.
- The poetry celebrated marital beliefs and practices that were in opposition to patriarchal marriage.
搜索了以前的帖子好像认为是C，但是GWD22的答案是D.我认为D肯定是错的，C有点道理但是也不对。我的意见是E.
理由如下：
原文是说W研究Unmarried woman，发现了quaker的这些富裕小姐们把一些诗copy到commonplace books.然后W argue that critique影响了在quaker school读书的穷人家孩子。但是作者认为W夸大了school的作用，后面就解释了一番。
先看C,有道理，但是原文是说
that educated young women, particularly Quakers, engaged in resistance to patriarchal marriage by....
然后C是说这些女人是因为 they interpreted it as providing a desirable model of unmarried life.
但是原文没说这些人持有了unmarried life的想法，这些critique只是反对家长制的婚姻。
所以我觉得E好像更有道理，就是这些女人抱有的婚姻观是和家长制婚姻相反的。。。
不知道这样解释对不对。。。达人分析下。。。
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