women’s experiences in colonial

LACE>PhiladelphiaLACE>, Wulf argues that edu-

Line cated young women, particularly

(5) Quakers, engaged in resistance to

patriarchal marriage by exchanging

poetry critical of marriage, copying

verse into their commonplace

books. Wulf suggests that this

(10) critique circulated beyond the

daughters of the Quaker elite

and middle class, whose com-

monplace books she mines,

proposing that Quaker shools

(15) brought it to many poor female

students of diverse backgrounds.

Here Wulf probably overstates

Quaker schools’ impact. At least

three years’ study would be

(20) necessary to achieve the literacy

competence necessary to grapple

with the material she analyzes.

In 1765, the year Wulf uses to

demonstrate the diversity of

(25) LACE>PhiladelphiaLACE>’s Quaker schools,

128 students enrolled in these

schools. Refining Wulf’s numbers

by the information she provides

on religious affiliation, gender, and

(30) length of study, it appears that only

about 17 poor non-quaker girls

were educated in LACE>PhiladelphiaLACE>’s

Quaker schools for three years or

longer. While Wulf is correct that

(35) a critique of patriarchal marriage

circulated broadly, Quaker schools

probably cannot be credited with

instilling these ideas in the lower

classes. Popular literary satires

(40) on marriage had already landed

on fertile ground in a multiethnic

population that embodied a wide

range of marital beliefs and

practices. These ethnic- and

(45) class-based traditions them-

selves challenged the legitimacy

of patriarchal marriage.

According to the passage, which of the following was true of attitudes toward marriage in colonial LACE>PhiladelphiaLACE>?

A. Exemplars of a critique of marriage could be found in various literary forms, but they did not impact public attitudes except among educated young women.

B. The diversity of the student body in the Quaker schools meant that attitudes toward marriage were more disparate there than elsewhere in LACE>PhiladelphiaLACE> society.

C. Although critical attitudes toward marriage were widespread, Quaker schools’ influence in disseminating these attitudes was limited.

D. Criticisms of marriage in colonial Philadelphia were directed at only certain limited aspects of patriarchal marriage.

E. The influence of the wide range of marital beliefs and practices present in Philadelphia’s multiethnic population can be detected in the poetry that educated young women copied in their commonplace books.

E/C

It seems that C is right, but why E is wrong? Actually, C doesn't cover the question because it has nothing to do with the attitude to the marriage.

I prefer E?

Any ideas?

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