SSAT Reading Question 135: Answer and Explanation
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Question: 135
6. It can be inferred that Nightingale's parents believed that
- A. maintaining sanitary conditions was a necessary component of overall good health
- B. Nightingale should not have gone to the Ottoman Empire
- C. nursing was an inappropriate vocation for an upper-class woman
- D. Nightingale was too young to decide her own career
Correct Answer: C
Explanation:
C
The passage states, "Florence Nightingale was born into a rich, well-connected British family, and if her parents had had their way, she would have married a rich gentleman and settled into a conventional upper-class woman's life. Alas, at 17 she had several encounters that she felt were calls from God, compelling her to serve others; by 24 she renounced her parents' wishes and undertook the task of educating herself to become a nurse."