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the only question left to be settled now is: are women persons? i scarcely believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. being persons, then, women are citizens, and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, which shall abridge their privileges or immunities. hence, every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void, precisely as is every one against negroes. susan b. anthony, "speech after being convicted of voting"

why does susan b. anthony most likely use a rhetorical question in this passage?

a. to have the audience refocus on the central point of her argument
b. to provide the audience with the opposition's viewpoint
c. to give the audience a chance to answer the question
d. to encourage the audience to listen to her evidence