Question

Information in the passage suggests that the author would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements concerning the cult of female domesticity?

• A. The cult of female domesticity developed independently of the concept of female benevolence.
• B. The cult of female domesticity was incompatible with women's participation in social activism.
• C. The cult of female domesticity incorporated ideological elements that actually helped some women to escape from their traditional domestic roles.
• D. The original motivation behind the promotion of the cult of female domesticity was to exclude women from partisan politics.
• E. The growth of organized philanthropy in the nineteenth-century United States is ultimately attributable to the cult of female domesticity.

Answer 1

The correct option is C The cult of female domesticity incorporated ideological elements that actually helped some women to escape from their traditional domestic roles.

In the first paragraph it is given that, ‘this ideology of female benevolence empowered women in the realm of social activism, enabling them to escape the confines of their traditional domestic spheres’. This shows that, the viewpoint of female domesticity had ideological elements that helped some women shun contemporary roles. Hence option(C) is the answer.