Read the following passages carefully before you choose your answer.
Passage One
This passage is taken from "The Revolt of Mother" by Mary Freeman.
"Sarah Penn's face as she rolled her pies had that expression of meek vigor which might have characterized one of the New Testament saints. She was making mince-pies. Her husband, Adoniram Penn, liked them better than any other kind. She baked twice a week. Adoniram often liked a piece of pie between meals. She hurried this morning. It had been later than usual when she began, and she wanted to have a pie baked for dinner. However deep a resentment she might be forced to hold against her husband, she would never fail in sedulous attention to his wants.
Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors. Sarah Penn's showed itself to-day in flaky dishes of pastry. So she made the pies faithfully, while across the table she could see, when she glanced up from her work, the sight that rankled in her patient and steadfast soul—the digging of the cellar of the new barn in the place where Adoniram forty years ago had promised her their new house should stand."
Passage Two
This passage is taken from George Washington Burnap's The Sphere and Duties of Woman.
"We now see women in that sphere for which she was originally intended and which she is so exactly fitted to adorn and bless, as the wife, the mistress of the home, the solace, the aid, and the counselor of the ONE, for whose sake alone the world is any consequence to her."
Which interpretation most accurately describes the portrayal of women in each passage? (5 points)
Passage One portrays women as rewarded by household chores while Passage Two contradicts this message.
Passage One portrays women as resentful of household chores while Passage Two contradicts this message.
Passage One and Passage Two both portray women as contented with a life of household duties.
Passage One and Passage Two both portray women as resentful of a life of household duties.
