A Doll’s House, Part 3: Theme and Society — Unit test
Question 13 • RKAA- Common Core English 10 1.0
Read the passage from A Doll’s House.Nora: Nurse, I want you to tell me something I have often wondered about—how could you have the heart to put your own child out among strangers?Nurse: I was obliged to, if I wanted to be little Nora's Nurse.Nora: Yes, but how could you be willing to do it?Nurse: What, when I was going to get such a good place by it? A poor girl who has got into trouble should be glad to. Besides, that wicked man didn't do a single thing for me.Nora: But I suppose your daughter has quite forgotten you.Nurse: No, indeed she hasn't. She wrote to me when she was confirmed, and when she was married.
Answer
A
The nurse’s willingness to take care of Nora when Nora was little demonstrates a woman’s ability to do difficult work.
B
The nurse’s need to give up a child in order to have a job demonstrates a woman’s inability to support herself.
C
The fact that the nurse’s child wrote to her as a young girl and as an adult demonstrates a woman’s ability to keep friends forever.
D
The nurse’s assurance to Nora that her children ask for her often demonstrates women’s role in health care.