Questions 12-15 refer to the following passage.

Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.

Which of the following can be properly inferred from the passage?

a. Szymanowska’s advancement of the music of Polish art songs in spite of patriarchal pressure demonstrates her feminist tendencies.

b. Szymanowska composed works beyond the genre of the Polonaise that are deserving of praise.

c. Szymanowska’s works that contributed to the development of Polish art song garnered a disproportionate amount of attention, considering that such compositions were only a small part of her repertoire.

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Line (5) Women played a substantial role in the furthering of the Polish art song in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. One notable woman from this time period was Maria Szymanowska, who was both a concert pianist and a composer. Szymanowska was a member of the Warsaw Music Society who contributed pieces to a cycle entitled Historical Songs. Her songs are by far (10) the most creative and individualistic of the cycle. In addition, Szymanowska composed more than one hundred other pieces, mostly for the piano, including six romances.