Question

Read the passage from A Room of one's own.

Which statement best explains how the structure of this text
supports Woolf's purpose?
There was an enormous body of masculine opinion to the
effect that nothing could be expected of women intellectually.
Even if her father did not read out loud these opinions, any
girl could read them for herself; and the reading, even in the
nineteenth century, must have lowered her vitality, and told
profoundly upon her work. There would always have been
that assertion—you cannot do this, you are incapable of
doing that-to protest against, to overcome. Probably for a
novelist this germ is no longer of much effect; for there have
been women novelists of merit. But for painters it must still
have some sting in it; and for musicians, I imagine, is even
now active and poisonous in the extreme. The woman
composer stands where the actress stood in the time of
Shakespeare.
A. The compare-contrast structure helps the reader
understand how women artists in a variety of disciplines
have been affected by cultural norms.
B. The cause-effect structure supports the point of view that
men, particularly fathers, are often the source of young
women's oppression.
C. The problem-solution structure supports the point of view
that conditions for women artists in most disciplines have
improved dramatically,
D. The chronological structure illustrates the pressures
discouraging women artists from pursuing their passions
from youth to adulthood.

Answer 1

A

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

A. The compare-contrast structure helps the reader

understand how women artists in a variety of disciplines

have been affected by cultural norms.

Step-by-step explanation:

From the passage, the compare-contrast structure supports Woolf's purpose by outlining the opinion of women's intellect in the 19th century and how it still affects women artists up till the 21st century.

The writer admits that this notion of women having little to offer did not have great effect of female novelists because there has been quite a good number of women novelists. But, for other artistic disciplines, women still take second stage, like the women painters, the women composers, etc.