Read the excerpt from Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897. All that day and far into the night I pondered the proble
m of boyhood. I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse. Which question would best help the reader understand Stanton’s viewpoint in this excerpt? Why does Stanton choose to study Greek instead of Latin? What does it mean to be equal to a boy, according to Stanton? How did Stanton manage to enroll in school with boys? What role did horses play in the society in which Stanton grew up?
This excerpt could be an answer to the question: "What does it mean to be equal to a boy, according to Stanton?"
Explanation:
Indeed, the narrator is talking about how she has been wondering how to best integrate among boys ("I pondered the problem of boyhood") by being as good as them in certain fields, like Greek and horseriding. Besides, she states explictly that to be learned and courageous is "the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys," which is the answer she found to her hours of thinking about this question.
