Question

Read this excerpt from A Room of one's Own by Virginia Woolf:
[G]enius like Shakespeare's is not born among labouring,
uneducated, servile people.... How, then, could it have
been born among women whose work began, according to
Professor Trevelyan, almost before they were out of the
nursery, who were forced to it by their parents and held to
it by all the power of law and custom? Yet genius of a sort
must have existed among women as it must have existed
among the working classes,
Which sentence best states the idea that this excerpt helps to develop?

Answer 1

Just took the quiz: In Shakespeare’s time, women had the same genius as men but weren’t allowed to develop it.

Explanation:

A p e x

Answer 2

Answer:

it's c - a rhetorical question suggests the central idea.

Explanation:

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