This question is missing the excerpt. I've found it online. It is the following:
Read the excerpt from act 2 of A Doll's House.
Krogstad: I shall only preserve it—keep it in my possession. No one who is not concerned in the matter shall have the slightest hint of it. So that if the thought of it has driven you to any desperate resolution.
Nora: It has.
Krogstad: If you had it in your mind to run away from your home.
Nora: I had.
Krogstad: Or even something worse—
Nora: How could you know that?
Krogstad: Give up the idea.
Nora: How did you know I had thought of that?
Krogstad: Most of us think of that at first. I did, too—but I hadn't the courage.
Nora: [faintly] No more had I.
Krogstad: [in a tone of relief]. No, that's it, isn't it—you hadn't the courage either?
Nora: No, I haven't—I haven't.
Krogstad: Besides, it would have been a great piece of folly. Once the first storm at home is over—. I have a letter for your husband in my pocket.
Nora: Telling him everything?
Krogstad: In as lenient a manner as I possibly could.
Answer:
The inference the text best supports is:
D. Nora is considering killing herself.
Explanation:
<u>Krogstad and Nora are characters in the play "A Doll's House", by Henrik Ibsen. The story is set at a time when women were not allowed to loan money from banks on their own. Krogstad is blackmailing Nora, since he knows she has forged her father's signature to borrow money from the bank where her own husband, Torvald, works.</u>
From the passage, we know Krogstad has written a "lenient" letter. That does not mean his letter is deceptive. He still tells the truth, only in a merciful way. We can eliminate option A.
The passage does not give us any hint that Krogstad is offering Nora advice. We can also eliminate option B.
From the passage, we can tell Krogstad does not think Nora is foolish. Quite the opposite, he can actually empathize with her feelings. Option C is also wrong.
<u>The correct option is D. Nora has considered killing herself. This is the "[o]r even something worse" Krogstad mentions. Afraid of what would happen if Torvalt found out about her crime, Nora considered running away or even taking her own life. However, she did not have the courage.</u>
