What basic question did Olympe de Gouges raise about women's citizenship?

Correct answer: Whether women would get civil and political rights equal to men

The governing concept is equal citizenship and the challenge to gender-based exclusion. Olympe de Gouges responded to the revolutionary language of universal rights by asking why women were not included in its promises. In the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, she argued that women should enjoy civil and political rights comparable to those claimed for men. Her question concerned voting, representation, participation in public life and equal recognition before the law, not a private privilege for a small group. Option A is correct because it expresses the central issue of her argument. Options B, C and D concern the king, feudal taxation or war and do not address women’s citizenship. Her work exposed the gap between the Revolution’s language of equality and women’s actual legal-political position.