Questions 22-31 are based on the following passage.
This passage is adapted from a speech delivered by Rafael Palma of the Philippines on November 22, 1919, as a senator for
the country’s fourth district. In the passage, Palma discusses the reasons that women should be allowed to vote. Palma’s
speech was delivered in the context of the first session of the fifth Filipino legislature, which was preparing to vote on the
question of female suffrage.