A Doll’s House, Part 3: Theme and Society — Unit test
Question 13 • CA-Common Core English Language Arts 10
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.
Explanation
The nurse explains that she had to give up her own child to get the job caring for Nora, because she needed a good place to work. This shows how limited a poor woman’s choices for supporting herself could be. Choice B correctly identifies that hardship; the passage does not say the nurse’s child asks for her often or focus on health care.
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