Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Anti-Suffragists – Exam Based MCQs
1. “The Anti-Suffragists” is written by: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Amy Lowell
C) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
D) Edna St. Vincent Millay
Ans: C) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
2. The poem appears in Gilman’s collection: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) Suffrage Songs and Verses
B) Leaves of Grass
C) Ariel
D) North of Boston
Ans: A) Suffrage Songs and Verses
3. Suffrage Songs and Verses was published in: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) 1890
B) 1905
C) 1911
D) 1925
Ans: C) 1911
4. In Suffrage Songs and Verses, “The Anti-Suffragists” is marked as reprinted from: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2019)
A) Women and Economics
B) The Forerunner
C) In This Our World
D) The Yellow Wallpaper
Ans: C) In This Our World
5. The title “The Anti-Suffragists” refers to people who opposed: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) free education
B) women’s right to vote
C) factory labor
D) equal pay legislation only
Ans: B) women’s right to vote
6. The opening of the poem describes women living in: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) rented city flats
B) luxurious homes
C) rural cottages
D) factory dormitories
Ans: B) luxurious homes
7. The women in the opening stanza are shown as having men to: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) debate philosophy with them
B) feed, clothe, and pay their bills
C) teach them literature
D) oppose them in court
Ans: B) feed, clothe, and pay their bills
8. The women described in the first stanza claim that they have: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) all the rights they want
B) no education at all
C) political equality already secured
D) no social privileges
Ans: A) all the rights they want
9. Gilman’s tone in the opening stanza is mainly: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) sentimental
B) reverential
C) satirical
D) tragic
Ans: C) satirical
10. The phrase “successful women who have won their way” is ironic because the poem suggests they: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) earned all progress collectively for women
B) are ignoring broader women’s struggles
C) oppose all wealth
D) reject all social status
Ans: B) are ignoring broader women’s struggles
11. One main target of Gilman’s criticism is: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) women who benefit from privilege but oppose reform
B) all working-class women
C) male poets only
D) religious devotion itself
Ans: A) women who benefit from privilege but oppose reform
12. The second part of the poem shifts attention toward: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) mythical women
B) hard-working women whose labor is ignored
C) European queens
D) literary hostesses only
Ans: B) hard-working women whose labor is ignored
13. The poem contrasts privileged anti-suffragists with: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) women laborers and wives who endure toil
B) women artists only
C) women politicians only
D) women living abroad
Ans: A) women laborers and wives who endure toil
14. The poem asks whether the “farmers’ and mechanics’ wives” deserve: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) less price than yours
B) more ornaments than yours
C) no wages at all
D) political silence forever
Ans: A) less price than yours
15. Gilman’s poem is best read as part of the: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2019)
A) suffrage movement
B) Beat movement
C) Imagist movement
D) Harlem Renaissance
Ans: A) suffrage movement
16. The poem’s argument is that anti-suffragist women fail to recognize: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) women’s unequal social and labor conditions
B) the beauty of luxury
C) the role of religion only
D) men’s artistic achievements
Ans: A) women’s unequal social and labor conditions
17. The phrase “We’re not exempt!” means that: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) no women are free from the effects of men’s world
B) only rich women suffer
C) men alone are oppressed
D) servants are exempt from labor
Ans: A) no women are free from the effects of men’s world
18. “Man’s world runs on” suggests that the world is organized primarily according to: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) women’s authority
B) patriarchal structures
C) socialist equality alone
D) religious neutrality
Ans: B) patriarchal structures
19. The poem criticizes both privilege and: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) fashion only
B) complacency
C) literacy
D) motherhood itself
Ans: B) complacency
20. The line “Our servitude and long duress” emphasizes women’s: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) decorative status only
B) historic oppression
C) physical beauty
D) literary ambition
Ans: B) historic oppression
21. Gilman contrasts “servitude and long duress” with: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) scientific learning
B) shameless, harem idleness
C) agricultural reform
D) political office
Ans: B) shameless, harem idleness
22. The reference to “harem idleness” is used to criticize: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) active citizenship
B) privileged female dependence
C) working-class labor
D) child education
Ans: B) privileged female dependence
23. The poem’s rhetoric is mainly: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) neutral and descriptive
B) persuasive and polemical
C) mystical and obscure
D) purely romantic
Ans: B) persuasive and polemical
24. The poem’s main purpose is to: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) defend anti-suffragist views
B) expose the contradictions of anti-suffragist women
C) praise domestic luxury
D) celebrate male gallantry
Ans: B) expose the contradictions of anti-suffragist women
25. A major irony in the poem is that women enjoying many comforts still claim: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) women need more work
B) women do not need more rights
C) men should vote less
D) servants deserve more power
Ans: B) women do not need more rights
26. “The Anti-Suffragists” is especially concerned with: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) class differences among women
B) sea travel
C) war strategy
D) childhood memory
Ans: A) class differences among women
27. The poem is best described as a: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) suffrage protest poem
B) pastoral ode
C) sonnet sequence
D) dramatic tragedy
Ans: A) suffrage protest poem
28. The first stanza mainly presents: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) poor women laborers
B) privileged anti-suffragist women
C) a historical speech
D) legal reform only
Ans: B) privileged anti-suffragist women
29. Later stanzas broaden the poem into a critique of: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) women’s labor exploitation and political exclusion
B) poetry reading habits only
C) fashion magazines only
D) theater audiences only
Ans: A) women’s labor exploitation and political exclusion
30. The poem implies that anti-suffragist women misunderstand: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) the realities of less privileged women
B) the meaning of fashion
C) religious doctrine
D) domestic decoration
Ans: A) the realities of less privileged women
31. Gilman’s style in the poem relies strongly on: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) irony and contrast
B) blank verse monologue only
C) obscure symbolism only
D) pastoral description only
Ans: A) irony and contrast
32. Which statement is TRUE about the poem? (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) It supports anti-suffrage arguments
B) It mocks women who oppose women’s rights
C) It is a neutral historical document only
D) It avoids social criticism
Ans: B) It mocks women who oppose women’s rights
33. The poem’s social perspective is closest to: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) feminist reformism
B) pure aestheticism
C) imperial nostalgia
D) medieval idealism
Ans: A) feminist reformism
34. The women in luxurious homes are shown as depending on: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) legal equality
B) male service and provision
C) their own labor alone
D) public office
Ans: B) male service and provision
35. The poem highlights the hypocrisy of women who: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) enjoy privilege but deny rights to other women
B) reject fashion
C) work long hours in factories
D) refuse domestic help
Ans: A) enjoy privilege but deny rights to other women
36. “The Anti-Suffragists” is most useful for discussing: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) gender, class, and political rights
B) seascapes and nature
C) war memoir
D) psychological horror only
Ans: A) gender, class, and political rights
37. The poem’s strongest effect comes from its: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) direct satire of contradiction
B) lyrical love imagery
C) historical narration only
D) epic grandeur
Ans: A) direct satire of contradiction
38. Gilman suggests that motherhood and labor under patriarchy are: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) equally valued for all women
B) often exploited and undervalued
C) irrelevant to suffrage
D) purely private matters only
Ans: B) often exploited and undervalued
39. The poem is NOT mainly about: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) voting rights
B) privilege
C) social hypocrisy
D) romantic courtship
Ans: D) romantic courtship
40. The poem’s title is effective because it: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) immediately identifies the target of satire
B) hides the poem’s subject completely
C) presents a pastoral scene
D) sounds like a love sonnet
Ans: A) immediately identifies the target of satire
41. The best short description of the poem is: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) a feminist protest poem exposing anti-suffrage hypocrisy
B) a domestic love lyric
C) a war ballad
D) a pastoral elegy
Ans: A) a feminist protest poem exposing anti-suffrage hypocrisy
42. The poem’s women are described with images of servants, horses, and dogs to stress their: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) political commitment
B) social ease and privilege
C) moral superiority
D) intellectual depth
Ans: B) social ease and privilege
43. Gilman’s poem ultimately argues that women’s rights should be judged by: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) the comfort of the wealthy few
B) the conditions of all women, especially the burdened
C) church approval alone
D) literary taste alone
Ans: B) the conditions of all women, especially the burdened
44. The poem’s social criticism is aimed at both: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) patriarchy and privileged female complacency
B) schools and churches only
C) poetry and art only
D) servants and laborers
Ans: A) patriarchy and privileged female complacency
45. Which line of thought best fits the poem? (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) luxury proves equality
B) privilege should not silence justice
C) women should avoid politics entirely
D) labor has nothing to do with rights
Ans: B) privilege should not silence justice
46. The poem is especially associated with Gilman’s broader interest in: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) women’s economic and social independence
B) war propaganda
C) detective fiction
D) seascape painting
Ans: A) women’s economic and social independence
47. “The Anti-Suffragists” belongs most clearly to: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) American feminist political poetry
B) metaphysical verse
C) Romantic ballad tradition only
D) confessional poetry
Ans: A) American feminist political poetry
48. The anti-suffragists in the poem are presented as failing to see: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) how dependent their comfort is on unjust systems
B) how important fashion is
C) how useful servants are only
D) how poetry works
Ans: A) how dependent their comfort is on unjust systems
49. Which statement is TRUE about “The Anti-Suffragists”? (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) It appears in Suffrage Songs and Verses and criticizes anti-suffrage women
B) It is a neutral history of voting laws
C) It rejects all forms of women’s labor
D) It is a pastoral song about farming wives
Ans: A) It appears in Suffrage Songs and Verses and criticizes anti-suffrage women
50. The overall message of the poem is that: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) women’s privileges are the same as women’s rights
B) political equality is unnecessary
C) anti-suffrage comfort hides injustice toward women as a whole
D) class differences do not matter in politics
Ans: C) anti-suffrage comfort hides injustice toward women as a whole
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