Additional Sample Questions

Edexcel Unit 2 is a source-based paper. Therefore teachers (or students) will need to find two or three sources to be used in conjunction with each question.

Part (a)

1. How far do the sources suggest that the 1882 Married Women's Property Act marked a major breakthrough for women’s rights?
2. How far do the sources suggest that the campaigns of the suffragists helped advance women’s rights in the period 1897 to 1907?
3. How far do the sources challenge the view that the Liberal Government of 1906–14 was ‘half hearted in its support of female suffrage’?
4. How far does the evidence of the sources suggest that women had greater opportunities in the work place in the decade following the First World War?

 

Part (b)

1. Do you agree with the view that the campaigns by the Women's Social and Political Union were ‘essentially counterproductive’ in the period 1904–1914?
2. Do you agree with the view that the vast majority of British people had little interest in the rights of women on the eve of the First World War?
3. Do you agree with the view that the opening of universities to women following 1886 led to greater opportunities for women within the professions?
4. Do you agree with the view that by the beginning of the First World War women were no longer ‘legal slaves’?