Question

Read the excerpt below from A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf and answer the question that follows.

Meanwhile his extraordinarily gifted sister, let us suppose, remained at home. She was as adventurous, as imaginative, as
agog to see the world as he was. But she was not sent to school. She had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let alone
of reading Horace and Virgil. She picked up a book now and then, one of her brother's perhaps, and read a few pages. But then
her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew and not moon about with books and papers. They
would have spoken sharply but kindly, for they were substantial people who knew the conditions of life for a woman and loved
their daughter-indeed, more likely than not she was the apple of her father's eye. Perhaps she scribbled some pages up in an
apple loft on the sly, but was careful to hide them or set fire to them.
Why is this "gifted sister" discouraged from reading and writing?
Women were encouraged to exist in the private sphere of life
The family did not want Shakespeare's sister to leave as he did.
Women who read and wrote too often were cast out of the home.
The family wanted her to become a doctor, not a writer or an actor.

Answer 1

A. women were encouraged to exist in the "private sphere" of life

Step-by-step explanation:

I took the pretest and got it wrong and it said this one was right

Answer 2

This is the correct statement:

Women who read and wrote too often were cast out of the home.

Step-by-step explanation:

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf is one of the markedly feminist tracts of all time and it asserts an important point through the existence of this fictional sister of Shakespeare by asserting a fact.

It is that the women were simply not allowed to read and write in his time and no matter how hard she would have tried she would not have amounted to much in her life.

The system was against her education and her pursuit of a career thus.