The following text is adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 play A Doll’s House. NORA: I don’t suppose I should care whether I owed money or not.HELMER: That is like a woman! But seriously, Nora, you know what I think about that. No debt, no borrowing. There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. We two have kept bravely on the straight road so far, and we will go on the same way for the short time longer that there need be any struggle.NORA: But come here and let me show you what I have bought. And all so cheap! Look, here is a new suit for Ivar, and a sword; and a horse and a trumpet for Bob; and a doll and dolly’s bedstead for Emmy,—they are very plain, but anyway she will soon break them in pieces. And here are dress-lengths and handkerchiefs for the maids; old Anne ought really to have something better.As used in the text, what does the word “plain” most nearly mean?ProvincialeliminateSimpleeliminateSincereeliminateUgly

Anna Karenina is an 1878 novel by Leo Tolstoy. In the novel, Dolly, the wife of Oblonsky, experiences a rift in her relationship with her husband. At one point, Dolly struggles between her desire for revenge and her love for Oblonsky: _______12Mark for ReviewCross out answer choices you think are wrong.ABCWhich quotation from Anna Karenina most effectively illustrates the claim?A“You remember the children, [Oblonsky], to play with them; but I remember them, and know that [our conflict] means their ruin,” [Dolly] said—"B"[Dolly] still continued to tell herself that she should leave [Oblonsky], but she was conscious that this was impossible; it was impossible because she could not get out of the habit of regarding him as her husband and loving him."C"Seeing her husband, [Dolly] dropped her hands into the drawer of the bureau as though looking for something, and only looked round at him when he had come quite up to her. But her face, to which she tried to give a severe and resolute expression, betrayed bewilderment and suffering."D"She shut the bureau with a slam, and glanced at [Oblonsky as he spoke to her]: 'Dolly, what can I say? One thing: forgive. Remember, cannot nine years of my life atone for an instant . . . '

The narrator's ability to consider the subject of gender inequality with disinterestedness stems in large part from her financial independence. She has five hundred pounds a year, and the effect of that income is to dissolve the frustration and vulnerability that would color her thinking and writing in a negative way. It is for this same reason that the writer of literature, in Woolf's view, must enjoy the luxury of financial freedom. Artistic production, even more perhaps than rational argumentation, requires that all traces of the particular self be distilled in the "white light of truth."

Which of the following domestic fiction themes is exemplified in the following quote from The Wide, Wide World?"It has comforted me greatly, my dear child, that you have shown yourself so submissive and patient under this affliction. I should scarcely have been able to endure it if you had not exerted self-control. You have behaved beautifully."CommunityInnocent young girlWomen's relationshipsReligion

Images of the woman's home in lines 27-29 of The Wife's Lament describe

Select the quotation from the story that most strongly suggests that the theme is You may not understand a thing's worth at first.Her next door neighbor, Ms. Addison, had recently had surgery and couldn't handle yard work, so Kamala had offered to help her out."Honey, I hope you said thank you," her mom said, examining it."Just a gift from Ms. Addison," she replied. "It was nice of her, but it's kind of ugly."Submit