Reading and Exploring 'To The Indifferent Women' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Reading and Exploring 'To The Indifferent Women' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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- In this lesson, we will be introduced to the poet Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her role in the women's suffrage movement, before exploring her poem 'To The Indifferent Women'.
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5 Questions
Q1.
What year was 'Good Bones' published in?
2014
2015
2017
Q2.
What happened to the poem 'Good Bones' when it was published?
It was banned
It was made into a TV show
No-one read it
Q3.
What form is 'Good Bones' written in?
Ballad
Haiku
Sonnet
Q4.
Fill in the gap: You could make this place _________.
Amazing
Better
Happier
Q5.
What type of sentence is this: This place could be beautiful, right?
Declarative
Exclamatory
Imperative
5 Questions
Q1.
Fill in the gap: Indifferent means to have no particular interest in, or sympathy for, something - being ______________.
Silly
Unresponsive
Unwilling
Q2.
Whose rights did Charlotte Perkins Gilman fight for?
Animals
Children
Men
Q3.
Which of the following is an example of direct address?
None of the above.
They were savagely slaughtered.
Who cares about this?
Q4.
Fill in the gap: Gilman is critical of women being confined to their '_________ homes'.
Husband's
Own
Small
Q5.
True or false: Ultimately, Perkins is celebrating the role of women in society.
False