It's A because a record from the county is an official government document.
What are the answer choices? Audience and purpose sound like they could fit.
The lines from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" most likely influenced Sandburg’s poem is this:
- The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
- Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
- Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, The fog in Sandburg’s poem has a parallel representation with the as a cat in the above line from the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Answer:
<u>The yellow fever epidemic had lasting consequences for the city.</u>
Explanation:
This is the best answer because the passage is about the deadly and lasting consequences that yellow fever had: the author mentions that an approximate of five thousand people were victims of it, many died, including people like ministers, sextons, and city officials; and those who did not die, had to flee the city. Such mortality rate and mass departure must have changed completely the way people lived back then, it should have been catastrophic for the city, as the author concludes: <em>The fear had gone too deep, the losses were all too real and personal. </em>
