When Alberti writes in On the Family, “At the end there were no household goods of which my wife had not learned both the place and purpose,” he alludes to one key reason that some women were educated:

a. to capably manage property and domestic affairs.
b. to support their husbands’ public roles.
c. to maintain Christian values in the household.
d. to educate their children.


Answer: a

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