Part 2: Summarizing Central Ideas about Elizabethan England — Unit test
Question 8 of 15 • (2026-2027) Grenaldo -- English 12 - 1st 9 Weeks
Which details give explicit examples of starvation during Elizabethan times? Select 5 options.
Answer
A
A miller’s daughter dies in her bed, weakened from lack of food.
B
A beggar boy from the Scottish Borders is found writhing in agony in the road and dies soon afterward “in great misery.”
C
Another “poor, hunger-starved beggar boy” is found in the street and carried into a house, where he dies.
D
A four-year-old local boy dies “for want of food and means,” as does his mother.
E
You hear the story of a man leaving his home and walking hundreds of miles in search of work or food and returning after a couple of months with sufficient money only to find that his wife and children have all since died.
F
Now you can see why so many people living in Kent in the 1590s walked there, as we have seen in Chapter Two.