Votes for Women Reading Answers
You should spend 20 minutes on answering questions 1-14 based on the reading passage given below.
Votes For Women
Answers
The answers to questions 1-14 are given below with their explanations.
Question Number | Answer | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
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1 | C | By doing so, it became one of the first groups to project a corporate identity, | Para 2, line 2 |
2 | D | created, give the movement, uniform, nationwide image | Para 2, line 2 |
3 | D(1918), E(1928) | bills of enfranchisement, 1918, 1928, gave the adult female populace, Britain, vote | Para 15, first 2 lines |
4 | Advertising space | partly because advertising space, bought, paper | Para 7, first 2 lines |
5 | Colour scheme(purple, white, green) | The creation of the colour scheme provided another money-making opportunity which the WSPU was quick to exploit. | Para 8, first 2 lines |
6 | The Woman’s Exhibition | most notable, Woman’s Exhibition, 1909, Knightsbridge ice-skating rink, in 10 days raised, £250,000 | Para 9, lines 3-5 |
7 | NO | Australia, United States, already enfranchised women | Para 3, lines 3-4 |
8 | YES | newspapers, WSPU, Votes for Women, The Suffragette, vital role, communication | Para 6, first 2 lines |
9 | NO | the message, spread around the country, members, branch officers, far away, Scotland | Para 5, last 2 lines |
10 | NO | proved an invaluable way, informing members, meetings, marches, fund-raising events, latest news, views, movement | Para 6, lines 2-4 |
11 | NOT GIVEN | ||
12 | YES | copies, The Suffragette, campaign banners, photographs, all on display together | Para 10, lines 2-3 |
13 | YES | Visitors, watch, short film, old newsreels, cinema material, clearly reveals, political mood, suffragettes, devised by the ‘antis’, opposed, women, vote, depicting, suffragette, fierce harridan bullying, poor, abused husband | Para 13, complete |
14 | D | it illustrates, intelligence employed, women, at that time deemed, politicians, ‘brains too small to know how to vote’ | Para 15, last 2 lines |
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