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

Answer 1

How could you have the heart to put your own child out among strangers ?"

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

The correct answer is "How could you have the heart to put your own child out among strangers ?"

Step-by-step explanation:

That phrase is the one that best supports the theme that society can put mothers in impossible situations, even something as extreme as leaving their own children among strangers.

The phrase says "How could you have the heart" establishing that this mother, as well as the other mothers in society are judged and labeled heartless for doing things like this.

When the situation becomes impossible, and a mother has to move forward even for the well-being of her child, she must do "disheartened" things because it is the only alternative she has. If society did not make this so impossible, perhaps the ways of acting would be different.