Most poor women lacked which facility?

Correct answer: General education and training

The direct answer is A: most poor women lacked general education and training. In eighteenth-century France, poor women usually had fewer opportunities than wealthy women to attend school or learn a skilled occupation. Their daily lives were often occupied by household work, caring for children, and earning a small income. Without education and training, their choices of work and their ability to gain independence were limited. A is correct because it identifies the real social disadvantage described in the chapter. B is wrong because a royal crown was not a normal facility or service that poor women were expected to possess. C is wrong because feudal rights were privileges connected with the old social order, not an educational facility. D is wrong because a foreign army was neither a facility nor something women lacked in this social sense. The exam cue is: poverty usually meant restricted access to schooling, skills, and better employment.