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Writing Workshop: An Informative Essay about Industrialization — Unit test

Question 7 • PA-US History: 1850 to Present A

Which sentence about the Irish potato famine is objective?

Answer
A
It was wrong for the English to export all of Ireland’s healthy crops..
B
Almost one million Irish people died during the potato famine.
C
The poor Irish must have been hungry, miserable, and afraid.
D
The Irish potato famine is a terrible period in Western history.

Explanation

An objective sentence presents a fact that can be checked, rather than an opinion or an assumption. “Almost one million Irish people died during the potato famine” makes a factual claim that can be verified. The other choices use judgments such as “wrong” and “terrible,” or speculate about how people felt.

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