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Use the following passage to answer questions 11-15

“Athenians suffered further hardship [from the plague] owing to the crowding into the city of people from the country districts; and this affected the new arrivals especially. For since no houses were available for them, and they had to live in huts that were stifling [hot and without air] in the hot season, they perished [died] in wild disorder. Bodies of dying men lay one upon another and half-dead people rolled about in the streets and, in their longing [desire] for water, near all the fountains. The temples, too, in which they had quartered [sheltered] themselves were full of the corpses of those who had died in them; for the calamity [disaster] which weighed upon them was so overpowering that men, not knowing what was to become of them, became careless of all law.”

—Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War: Volume 1

11. According to the passage by the historian Thucydides, who suffered the most from the crowding in the city?

12. According to the passage, why were many corpses found near the city’s fountains?

13. According to the passage, what symbolized to Thucydides the fact that the plague was causing people to stop caring about following laws?

14. According to the passage, why did people become careless of the law?

15. According to the passage, why did new arrivals to Athens live in huts?

1 answer

  1. According to the passage by the historian Thucydides, the new arrivals suffered the most from the crowding in the city.

  2. According to the passage, many corpses were found near the city’s fountains because people were longing for water and died there in their desperation.

  3. According to the passage, the fact that men became careless of all law symbolized to Thucydides the overwhelming nature of the calamity they faced due to the plague.

  4. According to the passage, people became careless of the law because the calamity was so overpowering that they did not know what was to become of them.

  5. According to the passage, new arrivals to Athens lived in huts because no houses were available for them, forcing them to seek shelter in stifling conditions.