Answer:
Many people strongly opposed the increasing rights of women.
Explanation:
The first and second options are incorrect, because the bicycle was not as successful as everyone hoped it would be, and the point of the excerpt is not that England was ahead in its fight for equal opportunities for women. The statement that Elizabeth Cady Staton fought for a woman's right to attend college is true, but the point is that many people strongly opposed the increasing rights of women despite the campaign.
B. Several major characters.
Kafka choose it because of the perception that a bug is perceived as a mindless systematic creature, a metaphor for the way Gregor lives his life, and acts in society
"On kin of cain" through to "that woful breed" Cain was the child of Adam and Eve, who killed his brother.