Got a 2 part question retaining to one passage. Will attach the passage below. **Part A** Which statement provides the line of reasoning presented in the passage?

A - Women and men may share a common experience of individuality, but women are better equipped to exert control over public matters.

B - People do not share a common experience, so society should consider individual differences, not gender, when determining who should be allowed to live independently.

C - Women share the same experience that men do of navigating life as individuals and therefore should be given the opportunity to develop self-reliance for their own good and the good of society.

D - Women should pursue the opportunity to be self-reliant with caution because while it may be good for their individual development, it will hurt society in general.

**Part B** Which sentence best reflects the purpose for the line of reasoning identified in Part A?

A - "We provide alike for all their individual necessities, then each man bears his own burden.” (Paragraph 3)

B - “There can never again be just such environments as make up the infancy, youth and manhood of this one.” (Paragraph 3)

C - “Nature having endowed them equally, leaves them to their own skill and judgment in the hour of danger, and, if not equal to the occasion, alike they perish.” (Paragraph 2)

D - “Again we ask complete individual development for the general good; for the consensus of the competent on the whole round of human interests; on all questions of national life.” (Paragraph 4)