RC Drill Set 3, Question 2
While best known for her fiction, Edith Wharton(453 more words not shown)
The passage suggests that the(20 more words not shown)
- AFeminism mainly aimed(5 more words not shown)
- BFeminism inspired a(10 more words not shown)
- CFeminism lost popularity(13 more words not shown)
- DFeminism could take(11 more words not shown)
- EFeminism was based(21 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What did the comparison with other feminists tell us? Wharton doubted that traditional barriers could be shattered, whereas many of her contemporaries were more hopeful. She instead pursued women's economic self-sufficiency within existing society. Keep those positions distinct as we check what the writer's account supports about feminism during her lifetime.
Working the answers
- A
Middle-class women are the subjects of Wharton's fiction. That doesn't establish the main target of the feminist movement as a whole.
- B
We learn that Wharton supported herself by writing. We aren't told that feminism inspired large numbers of women to pursue successful writing careers.
- C
No decline in feminism's popularity is described, much less one caused by failure to advance women.
- DCorrect
The writer expressly calls Wharton's approach a “different but still feminist path.” Disagreement about shattering traditional barriers therefore doesn't disqualify her approach. Economic self-sufficiency offers a different way to pursue women's advancement.
- E
Economic independence is Wharton's emphasis, not a stated foundation of feminism generally. The text also doesn't establish that the movement ranked economic obstacles above political ones. We shouldn't turn one woman's distinctive route into everyone else's position.
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