Read the passage from A Doll’s House.Helmer: To desert your home, your husband and your children! And you don't consider what people will say!Nora: I cannot consider that at all. I only know that it is necessary for me.Helmer: It's shocking. This is how you would neglect your most sacred duties.Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own.That refuge she would have sought certainly. It was the relic of the sense of chastity that dictated anonymity to women even so late as the nineteenth century. Currer Bell, George Eliot, George Sand, all the victims of inner strife as their writings prove, sought ineffectively to veil themselves by using the name of a man. Thus they did homage to the convention, which if not implanted by the other sex was liberally encouraged by them (the chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of man), that publicity in women is detestable.
Answer
A
Women are strong and do need the support of men.
B
Raising children is a woman’s most important job.
C
Women are expected to be invisible in society.
D
Women should take pride in caring for children.
Explanation
In A Doll’s House, Helmer criticizes Nora for leaving her family and worries about what people will say, showing how society judges women who act independently. In A Room of One’s Own, Woolf explains that women writers used men’s names to avoid the stigma of public attention. Together, the passages show that women are expected to remain invisible in society, which is choice C.
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