Part 2: Summarizing Central Ideas about Elizabethan England
Question 4 • *HSA 26-27 English IV A -IC
Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.The grim reality is that plague in the capital is as common as the stench of the cesspits and almost as unavoidable. You cannot predict where it will strike: People living next door to infected houses are left unaffected. Some people are not touched even when others in their own house have it.
Answer
A
The plague was unavoidable, and unpredictable in regards to whom it would affect.
B
The plague was associated with filthy cesspits. It was a dirty disease with a foul odor.
C
People in diseased homes should certainly have left immediately to avoid infection.
D
The capital was the center of all medical care, and Elizabethans came for treatment.
Explanation
The excerpt says plague is “almost as unavoidable” as the stench and that you cannot predict where it will strike. It also notes that neighbors and even people in the same house might escape infection. These details support choice A: the plague was widespread and unpredictable in whom it affected. The mention of cesspits compares how common the plague was; it does not say the disease smelled foul.
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