Question

Read the following text from a memoir. This excerpt is about Anne Morrow Lindbergh's 1931 flight to China. As I walked out of the building two women ran up to me. "Oh, Mrs. Lindbergh," said one, "the women of America are so anxious to know about your clothes." "And I," said the other, "want to write a little article about your housekeeping in the ship. Where do you put the lunch boxes?" I felt depressed, as I generally do when women reporters ask me conventionally feminine questions. I feel as they must feel when they are given those questions to ask. I feel slightly insulted. Over in the corner my husband is being asked vital masculine questions, clean-cut steely technicalities or broad abstractions. But I am asked about clothes and lunch boxes. From Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the Orient. Copyright 1935 by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Based on this excerpt, what can you conclude about Anne Morrow Lindbergh's 1931 flight to China?
A. Lindbergh was disappointed in the questions reporters asked her.
B. Lindbergh had never answered questions from reporters before.
C. Lindbergh was unable to answer the questions reporters asked her.

Answer 1

Anne Morrow Lindbergh felt depressed and slightly insulted by the trivial nature of questions about clothes and housekeeping, while her husband was asked serious technical questions, reflecting the gender biases of the era.

Step-by-step explanation:

Based on the excerpt from Anne Morrow Lindbergh's memoir, North to the Orient, we can conclude that Lindbergh was disappointed in the questions reporters asked her during her 1931 flight to China. The text reveals her sense of depression and insult at being asked "conventionally feminine questions" about her clothes and housekeeping in the aircraft.

While her husband, Charles Lindbergh, was engaged in questions about "vital masculine questions, clean-cut steely technicalities or broad abstractions." This highlights the gender biases of the time and how women, even those like Anne Morrow Lindbergh accomplishing significant feats, were often not taken as seriously as their male counterparts in the field of aviation or in the eyes of the media.