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Part 2: Summarizing Central Ideas about Elizabethan England Answers

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How does the passage develop the central idea "Elizabethans believed that health depended on the balance of the four humors"?

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It explains that Elizabethans could control the balance of their humors.
B
It explains that Elizabethans blamed what they ingested for the imbalance of humors.
C
It explains that Elizabethans believed that age was responsible for imbalanced humors.
D
It explains that Elizabethans believed that divine intervention caused imbalanced humors.
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What is the central idea of this passage?

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Large numbers of Elizabethans died from illness and disease.
B
Elizabethans easily recovered from the spread of influenza.
C
Elizabethan influenza was much like the influenza of today.
D
Malaria was one disease that Elizabethans faced.
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How does the passage expand on the central idea "large numbers of Elizabethans died from illness and disease"?

A
It specifies that malaria was the most dangerous disease in Elizabethan England.
B
It clarifies that the plague was the biggest killer in Elizabethan England.
C
It explains the causes of illnesses such as influenza, malaria, and the plague.
D
It lists the ways to avoid falling ill with plague, influenza, and malaria.
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How does the passage expand on the central idea "the plague was the biggest killer in Elizabethan England"?

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It explains that many people died because medicines and medical practices were not effective.
B
It explains that people were not taking the medical advice of doctors.
C
It explains that the physicians gave up on trying to stop the spread of disease.
D
It explains that the medicines and medical practices of the time saved lives.

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