Read the literary analysis of The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.In The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England, Mortimer helps readers relate to how deadly the plague was. He uses specific, clear examples to make his points, such as in the following example.
Answer
A
Elizabethans studied Galen, who lived in the second century CE.
B
Sixteenth-century medical assumptions were wrong.
C
After the 1556 outbreak, people did not know whether the plague would return.
D
An estimated 250,000 people died during the epidemic.
Explanation
A specific estimate of 250,000 deaths shows the scale and deadly impact of the plague in concrete terms. The other choices describe medical beliefs or uncertainty about the plague, but they do not directly show how many people died.
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