Read the excerpt on the right. The underlined words are the names of towns in Massachusetts. What do the different town names indicate?

Question

Each town indicates a different example of abuse from Dix’s journal.
Each town indicates a place where people with mental illnesses were well treated.

Each town indicates a different place where people with mental illnesses lived.

Answer 1

The underlined town names likely indicate each town as a different place where people with mental illnesses lived.