Read the excerpt from Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller.A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. The female Greek, of our day, is as much in the street as the male to cry, "What news?" We doubt not it was the same in Athens of old. The women, shut out from the market-place, made up for it at the religious festivals. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.
Answer
A
by describing women’s religious roles
B
by insisting that every human mind needs fuel
C
by explaining the significance of trading at Greek markets
D
by suggesting that women can learn without leaving their homes
Explanation
Fuller compares nourishment for the body with nourishment for the mind, saying a home needs “food and fire” for both. She then explains that women seek news and intellectual stimulation even when excluded from the marketplace, because people need opportunities for “expansion.” This supports the idea that every human mind needs fuel; the passage is not mainly about trading or women learning only at home.
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