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1. Which statement best describes the shift in public perceptions of women depicted in "The Women Who Went to the Field"? A. First, people expected women to bring tea to men on the battlefield; over time, they increasingly allowed women to perform medical tasks. B. First, people doubted women's ability to spend time near a battlefield; gradually, they came to accept and appreciate women who helped soldiers. C. First, people grudgingly accepted women's presence near the battlefield; increasingly, however, they began to encourage women to help fallen soldiers. D. First, people thought that women should stay home with their families; gradually, they determined that aiding soldiers could help women care for their families. ​

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The North American Review came out the other day for woman suffrage. That fact in itself does not

guarantee that women will get the suffrage right away, but it does attest that woman suffrage is an idea

on which some fairly thoughtful minds still dwell. Colonel Roosevelt is credited with having womansuffrage sentiments, and we guess Colonel Bryan also harbors them.

Woman suffrage is particularly good form just now because of the considerable stir about it in England.

Likely enough it will be realized in England before it is here. The population of England is mainly

English, and is not being enriched (or diluted) by an annual immigration of a million and a quarter of

newcomers from the outskirts of continental Europe. Woman suffrage in England would only mean

more of the same, but here it would mean both more of what we have got and of what we are getting.

The primary objection to woman suffrage is that it would add an enormous army of unqualified voters

to the huge mass of them that vote now. The primary argument in extenuation of it is that the standard

of qualification for voting is already so low that no possible influx of women voters could lower it. As it

is, our voters are an instrument to play upon. If the women voted it would be a bigger instrument, but

would it be in any important particular a different one? If the political achievements of the Women's

Christian Temperance Union in suppressing the army canteen are a fair example of what women might

be expected to do in politics, it will not profit the administration of government to have their direct

political power increased. It is likely, however, that the W. C. T. U. no more represents women in

general than the Prohibition party represents men in general. It is likely, too, that if women got the

suffrage, such organizations as the W. C. T. U. would lose in relative influence. Now they stand as lone

representatives of organized political womanhood. Their views are disseminated and their purposes are

pressed, but the views of women who dissent from them are not heard., If all women were politically

organized, the leadership of such special organizations would promptly be disputed and their influence

would probably diminish.

That has happened already in the case of the American suffragists. When it began to be feared that the organized action of

women who wanted to vote would force the suffrage upon the large majority of women who do not want to vote, the

antisuffrage women organized to prevent it. So far their opposition has usually been effective, so that for ten years past in the

older and more conservative States the woman-suffrage movement has retrograded.

According to "The Women Who Went to the Field," we can see that people doubted women's ability to spend time on a battlefield, but came to value women who helped soldiers, as shown in option B.

We can arrive at this answer because:

  • The poem shows how the perception of women's usefulness during wartime has changed.
  • That's because, in the beginning, women were seen as people who couldn't withstand the terrors of a battlefield.
  • For this reason, everyone believed that women should stay at home, waiting for the war to end and not disturbing the soldiers.

However, many women went to the war camps to help soldiers, especially the wounded. In this case, people began to realize that they were wrong about women, as they could withstand the horrors of war and could be a valuable and indispensable help.

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