Author Question: Free black girls and women a. had plenty of opportunities as skilled laborers in the Upper South. ... (Read 54 times)

storky111 · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

Simone de Beauvoir

a. was the author of The Feminine Mystique.
b. had a life-long relationship with Albert Camus, the existentialist philosopher.
c. was influential in her native France but not in English-speaking countries.
d. wrote The Second Sex.
e. claimed that by the 1970s women had achieved equal status with men.

Question 2

Free black girls and women

a. had plenty of opportunities as skilled laborers in the Upper South.
b. Often became cooks, seamstresses, washers, or ran small groceries and taverns.
c. were banned from well-paid occupations like midwifery, folk healing, or prostitution.
d. enjoyed much better prospects than free black men in the Upper South.