What inference can be drawn in this excerpt from jane austen's pride and prejudice?

The correct answer is C) Mr. Bennet’s property cannot pass to his daughters because the law dictates that a male descendant must inherit.

The inference that can be drawn from this excerpt from Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” is that “Mr. Bennet’s property cannot pass to his daughters because the law dictates that a male descendant must inherit.”

This is so because in the excerpt it says that “Mr. Bennet property consisted almost entirely in a state of two thousand a year, which unfortunately for his daughters was entailed in default of heirs male, on a distant relation…”  

Jane Austen’s wrote the romantic novel “Pride and Prejudice” in 1813. It refers to the life of Elizabeth Manner, what happens to her, during the Regency times in England.  

The other options of the question were, a) Mr. Bennet inherited property from his father-in-law because Mr. Bennet was an only child without any brothers, b) Mr. Bennet was originally an attorney in Meryton but gave up the profession to become a clergyman, d) Mrs. Bennet has ample fortune to support her unmarried daughters for the rest of their lives, and e) Mr. Bennet is a man of considerable fortune.