Engaging in a Group Literary Discussion — Unit test
Question 3 • CHS English 4 A
Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England.The following examples show how famine hits the Cumberland parish of Greystoke. Here "a poor fellow destitute of succor” is found in the highway and is carried to the constable’s house, where he dies. A miller’s daughter dies in her bed, weakened from lack of food. A beggar boy from the Scottish Borders is found writhing in agony in the road and dies soon afterward "in great misery.” Another "poor, hunger-starved beggar boy”
Answer
d
death from starvation was common in Elizabethan England.
v
very few people died of starvation in Elizabethan England.
c
communities were shocked by the deaths from starvation.
c
communities tried to prevent the deaths from starvation.
Explanation
The excerpt describes several people in one parish dying after going without food, including a man found on the highway and a miller’s daughter who was too weak to survive. These repeated examples suggest that death from starvation was common in Elizabethan England, rather than rare or prevented by the community.
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