questions 6 through 9 refer to the following.
(the following passage is excerpted from a book published by an american journalist and author in 1983.)
even without the appropriate toys and clothes, lessons in the art of being feminine lay all around me and i absorbed them all: the fairy tales that were read to me at night, the brightly colored advertisements i pored over in magazines before i learned to decipher the words, the movies i saw, the comic books i hoarded, the radio soap operas i happily followed whenever i had to stay in bed with a cold. i loved being a little girl, or rather i loved being a fairy princess, for that was who i thought i was.
as i passed through a stormy adolescence to a stormy maturity, femininity increasingly became an exasperation, a brilliant subtle esthetic that was bafflingly inconsistent at the same time that it was minutely, demandingly concrete, a rigid code of appearance and behavior defined by dos and dont - dos that went against my rebellious grain. femininity was a challenge thrown down to the female sex, a challenge no proud, self - respecting young woman could afford to ignore, particularly one with enormous ambition that she nursed in secret, alternately feeding or starving its inchoate life in tremendous confusion.
- \dont lose your femininity\ and \isnt it remarkable how she manages to retain her femininity?\ had terrifying implications. they spoke of a bottom - line failure so irreversible that nothing else mattered. the pinball machine was registered ilt,\ the game had been called disqualification was marked on the forehead of a woman whose femininity was lost. no records would be entered in her name, for she had destroyed her birthright in her
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which of the following statements most directly expresses the authors thesis in the passage?
a \lessons in the art of being feminine lay all around me\ (paragraph 1, sentence 1)
b \i loved being a little girl, or rather i loved being a fairy princess, for that was who i thought i was\ (paragraph 1, sentence 2)
c \femininity was a challenge thrown down to the female sex, a challenge no proud, self - respecting young woman could afford to ignore\ (paragraph 2, sentence 2)
d \isnt it remarkable how she manages to retain her femininity?\ had terrifying implications (paragraph 3, sentence 1)

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questions 6 through 9 refer to the following.
(the following passage is excerpted from a book published by an american journalist and author in 1983.)
even without the appropriate toys and clothes, lessons in the art of being feminine lay all around me and i absorbed them all: the fairy tales that were read to me at night, the brightly colored advertisements i pored over in magazines before i learned to decipher the words, the movies i saw, the comic books i hoarded, the radio soap operas i happily followed whenever i had to stay in bed with a cold. i loved being a little girl, or rather i loved being a fairy princess, for that was who i thought i was.
as i passed through a stormy adolescence to a stormy maturity, femininity increasingly became an exasperation, a brilliant subtle esthetic that was bafflingly inconsistent at the same time that it was minutely, demandingly concrete, a rigid code of appearance and behavior defined by dos and dont - dos that went against my rebellious grain. femininity was a challenge thrown down to the female sex, a challenge no proud, self - respecting young woman could afford to ignore, particularly one with enormous ambition that she nursed in secret, alternately feeding or starving its inchoate life in tremendous confusion.
- \dont lose your femininity\ and \isnt it remarkable how she manages to retain her femininity?\ had terrifying implications. they spoke of a bottom - line failure so irreversible that nothing else mattered. the pinball machine was registered 	ilt,\ the game had been called disqualification was marked on the forehead of a woman whose femininity was lost. no records would be entered in her name, for she had destroyed her birthright in her
6 mark for review
which of the following statements most directly expresses the authors thesis in the passage?
a \lessons in the art of being feminine lay all around me\ (paragraph 1, sentence 1)
b \i loved being a little girl, or rather i loved being a fairy princess, for that was who i thought i was\ (paragraph 1, sentence 2)
c \femininity was a challenge thrown down to the female sex, a challenge no proud, self - respecting young woman could afford to ignore\ (paragraph 2, sentence 2)
d \isnt it remarkable how she manages to retain her femininity?\ had terrifying implications (paragraph 3, sentence 1)

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# Brief Explanations:
The thesis of a passage is its central argument or main idea. In this passage, the author discusses the challenges and expectations related to femininity. Option C directly addresses the idea that femininity was a challenge (as stated in the text: "Femininity was a challenge thrown down to the female sex, a challenge no proud, self - respecting young woman could afford to ignore..."). Options A, B, and D are more about specific details (toys/clothes, personal preferences like loving being a girl or fairy princess, and a particular remark about retaining femininity) rather than the overarching thesis.
# Answer:
C. "Femininity was a challenge thrown down to the female sex, a challenge no proud, self - respecting young woman could afford to ignore" (paragraph 2, sentence 2)

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