Select the correct answer from the drop-down menus. Read the two excerpts. Then choose the correct way to complete the sentences.
In Passage 1, Abigail Adams’s purpose seems to be to
1 raise serious concerns in a humorous way.
2 entertain her husband with an absurd proposal.
3 inform her husband about events at home. One sentence that illustrates this playful approach is
1 “If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion. . . .”
2 “I long to hear that you have declared an independency.”
3 “Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.”