Answer:
C. Marriage was the only means for women to gain social mobility.
Explanation:
Jane Austen's time is the 1600s where women had very limited professional development. In such a very patriarchal society, women were inferior and their only chance at improving their status in life was marrying a man of certain stature; although marriages were still arranged then. They had no voice of their own and they were not even allowed to vote.
Answer:
1. The woman visited the shop to get the record she heard on the radio
2. she suggested to Dolores to play the records so she could recognize which one is the song she must have heard on the radio
3. The woman looked depressed because when she was asked to hum the record she might have heard she became depressed in the thought of not being able to hum a national anthem
4. She remembered the source from where it came from
The author converts joy in the excerpt by using irony in the situation of it being so hot they have to fan themselves then, ironically they start singing a song titled heatwave