Question

Select the best paraphrase of the following sentence from the passage

With their main source of income gone, the Irish had to live in poor conditions, where diseases spread unchecked

Answer 1

A.With no potatoes, rural farmers and their families lost much of their earnings. They were forced into poverty, and diseases became far more common
B.One disease that was common during the Great Irish Famine was typhus. Typhus is a bacterial infection that is usually spread by lice or fleas

C.With their main source of income gone, peasants had to live in poor conditions, where diseases spread wildly

D.The Irish lost their main source of income and had to live in poor conditions, where diseases spread unchecked

Answer 2

D lol

Answer 3

no it says it was A.

Answer 4

wtf

Answer 5

I #hate #studyisland

Answer 6

foreal tho

Answer 7

In paraphrase you don't assume things...whereas A does.

Answer 8

How were you to know their source of income was that potato

Answer 9

idk

Answer 10

That question must have been contextual to the previous passage?

Answer 11

thats y i hate syudy island

Answer 12

this is history then

Answer 13

anyway sorry about that

Answer 14

idk

Answer 15

and it ok @Robert136