Question

“She stood at the stage door; she wanted to act, she said. Men laughed in her face. The manager—a fat, loose-lipped man—guffawed. He bellowed something about poodles dancing and women acting—no woman, he said, could possibly be an actress.”—What comparison was Virginia Woolf making here, based on the time period in which she lived? A. Women during Shakespeare’s time period had similar limitations placed on them as women in the Victorian time period.

B. She was comparing male and female acting roles in the Victorian Era. C. Women have been ridiculed in every time period.
D. She was showing how men treated women terribly from one era to the next.

Answer 1

A. Women during Shakespeare's time period had similar limitations placed on them as women in the Victorian time period.

I had a right on my test.

Answer 2

You can easily cross off C and D as answer choices; they do not show how Virginia Woolf's time period has anything to do with the passage above. I would say that the best answer to the question would be B.