QUININE, CINNAMON, AND OTHER USEFUL SUBSTANCES ARE ALL DERIVED OF T...

3. Quinine, cinnamon, and other useful substances are all derived of the bark of trees.

A. are B. bark of trees C. derived of D. other useful substances

Read the following passage and mark the letter A,B, C or D on your answer sheet to

indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 4 to 10.

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, almost nothing was written about the

contributions of women during the colonial period and the early history of the newly

formed United States. Lacking the right to vote and absent from the seats of power,

women were not considered an important force in history. Anne Bradstreet wrote some

significant poetry in the seventeenth century, Mercy Otis Warren produced the best

contemporary history of the American Revolution, and Abigail Adams penned important

letters showing she exercised great political influence over her husband, John, the second

President of the United States. But little or no notice was taken of these contributions.

During these centuries, women remained invisible in history books.

Throughout the nineteenth century, this lack of visibility continued, despite the efforts of

female authors writing about women. These writers, like most of their male counterparts,

were amateur historians. Their writings were celebratory in nature, and they were

uncritical in their selection and use of sources.

During the nineteenth century, however, certain feminists showed a keen sense of history

by keeping records of activities in which women were engaged. National, regional, and

local women's organizations compiled accounts of their doings. Personal correspondence,

newspaper clippings, and souvenirs were saved and stored. These sources from the core of

the two greatest collections of women's history in the United States one at the Elizabeth

and Arthur Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, and the other the Sophia Smith

Collection at Smith College. Such sources have provided valuable materials for later

Generations of historians.

Despite the gathering of more information about ordinary women during the nineteenth

Century, most of the writing about women conformed to the "great women" theory of

History,just as much of mainstream American history concentrated on "great men." To

demonstrate that women were making significant contributions to American life, female

authors singled out women leaders and wrote biographies, or else important women

produced their autobiographies. Most of these leaders were involved in public life as

reformers, activists working for women's right to vote, or authors, and were not

representative at all of the great of ordinary woman. The lives of ordinary people

continued, generally, to be untold in the American histories being published.