Part a: which statement identifies the central idea of the text? all women were united in their fight for the right to vote in the united states. women were tireless in their efforts to ensure that they had a right to vote, and therefore, a say in the future of their country. the united states’ democratic values made it one of the leading nations to allow women the right to vote. the women’s suffrage movement was overrun by radicals who used violence to advance their cause.

your answer is b. "with strong wording encouraging readers to take action."

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.