Base your answers to question 1 on the excerpt below and on your knowledge of social studies.

"Citizens avoided citizens [because of the illness) ... that in the horror thereof brother was forsaken by

brother, nephew by uncle, brother by sister, and oftentimes husband by wife; nay, what is more, and

scarcely to be believed, fathers and mothers were found to abandon their own children, untended,

unvisited, to their fate, as if they had been strangers"

Source: Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1353

1. A historian would study this document in order to understand the

A) spread of the flu virus during the early 1900s

B) brutality of the Ottoman attack against the Byzantine Empire

C) treatment of native and foreign born people in Ming China

D) breakdown of social order during the bubonic Plague

How did tyrants attempt to gain the approval of common citizens in ancient greece?

Read the excerpt from the monsters are due on maple street.as they suddenly start toward the house. in this brief fraction of a moment they take the first step toward performing a metamorphosis that changes people from a group into a mob. they begin to head purposefully across the street toward the house at the end. steve stands in front of them. for a moment their fear almost turns their walk into a wild stampede but steve's voice, loud, incisive and commanding, makes them stop.stevewait a minute . . wait a minute! let's not be a mob! the people stop as a group, seem to pause for a moment and then much more quietly and slowly start to walk across the street.which sentence from the excerpt is an example of foreshadowing? a) as they suddenly start toward the house.b) in this brief fraction of a moment they take the first step toward performing a metamorphosis that changes people from a group into a mob.c) they begin to head purposefully across the street toward the house at the end.d) the people stop as a group, seem to pause for a moment and then much more quietly and slowly start to walk across the street.

How would you describe the relationship between the major world religions today? how do those relationships manifest in the united states today?