Questions 3-6 refer to the following passage.

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

The author suggests which of the following about how the préciosité was viewed during the seventeenth century?

a. Literature can be a weapon of protest.

b. Before the seventeenth century, the French expressed themselves through the arts.

c. Literature was the only means of protest available to women in the seventeenth century.

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(5) Préciosité, "preciousness," or the manifesta- tion of the baroque in literature, is often dis- missed as a "feminine concoction," mocked by Line Molière and thought to be ridiculous by modern standards. Preferring appearance to substance and excess to moderation, baroque expression is given to wild exaggeration and purple descrip- tion. However, when one considers its historical context, the movement can be seen as a subtle (10) rebellion by an otherwise powerless sex against its restrictive society.