Correct Option is D. Lines 72-75 ("Consider . . . happiness")
In lines 72-75, Wollstonecraft provides evidence that society’s leaders grant freedoms that privilege men. She argues that while society’s leaders believe they “are acting in the manner best calculated to promote [women’s] happiness,” their decisions don’t allow women to “contend for their freedom.”
Choices A, B, and C do not provide the best evidence that society’s leaders grant freedoms that privilege men over women.
<h3>The lines from passage are - </h3>
Consider—I address you as a legislator—
whether, when men contend for their freedom, and
to be allowed to judge for themselves respecting their
own happiness
Previous Question is :
"In Passage 2, the author claims that freedoms granted by society's leaders have:"
<h3>This question is based on paragraph from Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Originally published in 1792, which is given below -</h3>
Passage 2 -
"Contending for the rights of woman, my main argument is built on this simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of 45 knowledge and virtue; for truth must be common to all, or it will be inefficacious with respect to its influence on general practice.
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