Which of the Following Best Describes the Role of Women

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the role of women in feudal society?

A) Women exerted virtually no influence in matters of state and were regularly segregated socially from men.
B) Unusual for its time, peasant women wielded far more power than their elite counterparts.
C) Though politically weak, women were known far and wide in feudal Europe for their scholarship.
D) Women exerted a great deal of influence in feudal European society through the marriage alliances they helped to cement.