Type : MCQ

Intructions :

Directions: The following paragraph is followed by four alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the paragraph.

Question Statement :

There are many and good reasons why women have left little in the way of literary monuments, especially poetry. The main reason is education, or more specifically, the lack of it in most womens lives until well into the twentieth century. In the light of this, what is surprising is not that so few women wrote poetry, but that any women wrote poetry at all. When a woman who had never been to grammar school, never learnt Latin and did not know the rules of syntax, let alone of prosody, set herself to writing lines that rhymed, she was imitating an art that, admire it though she might, she did not understand a male art, a male tradition. This meant she generally produced poetry that was at best imperfect, at worst, frankly bad.

The reason women haven t created literary monuments is because, until recently, they were not educated. Thus, women were unable to write poetry until well into the twentieth century.
Lack of education is the biggest reason for women's lack of achievements in the literary sphere. In the absence of knowledge, women would merely emulate male creations in the field of poetry.
Lack of education is the biggest reason for women's lack of achievements in the literary sphere. They felt that they were inferior to educated men and so they imitated men in every area, including literature.
Lack of education is the biggest reason for women's lack of achievements in the literary sphere. It suited men well since, in such a scenario, women had no choice but to imitate men.