What is theme? A. a lesson or message that the author wants the reader to know B. the setting, or where and when the story takes place C. the problem or challenge a character must overcome D. what a character says and does

Read the following excerpt from carrie chapman catt's address to congress, women's suffrage, 1917.woman suffrage is inevitable. suffragists knew it before november 4, 1917, opponents afterward. threedistinct causes made it inevitable.use context clues or a dictionary to select the best definition for catt's use of suffrage.© an advancementa petitionsa right to votean ecclesiastical prayer