Question

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.



Question: How does the author use the character of the nurse to develop the social issue of gender inequality?


Answer options:

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.

Answer 1

Answer:

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.