Question

Read the excerpt from act 2 of A Doll’s House.

Nurse: Oh well, young children easily get accustomed to anything.

Nora: Do you think so? Do you think they would forget their mother if she went away altogether?

Nurse: Good heavens!—went away altogether?

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.

What evidence from the text best supports the theme that society can put mothers in impossible situations?

“Oh well, young children easily get accustomed to anything."
“Do you think they would forget their mother if she went away altogether?”
“How could you have the heart to put your own child out among strangers?”
“I want you to tell me something I have often wondered about”

Answer 1

Answer: “How could you have the heart to put your own child out among strangers?”

Answer 2

Answer: C)"...How could you have the heart to put your own child out among strangers?"

Explanation: This answer choice most closely matches what the question is looking for. It shows some judgement by Nora. It is the statement that opens up the nurse's revelation that it had to do with her being "a poor girl who has got into trouble..." and how she felt she had to deal with it in the best way she could at that desperate time of her life.