Question

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What is the central idea of this paragraph?

Another name for the plague in the 1500s was “the pestilence.”
In 1565 almost 20 percent of the population died of the plague.
The plague was the most deadly disease of the Elizabethan era.
Malaria and influenza killed almost as many people as the plague.

Answer 1

The plague was the most deadly disease of the Elizabethan era.

Answer 2

The main idea was to comment on the plague being a devastating disease in the Elizabethan era. More devastating than the flu and malaria, which were very aggressive diseases, but the number of deaths caused by the flu, added to the number of deaths caused by malaria, were not enough to exceed the number of deaths that the plague, alone, decimated .