Question

Highlight details that support a central idea.

In such circumstances [poor harvest], storage of food is most important. The principal rule is to have separate places for different types of commodity: dry things can be kept in a pantry with bread and dry linen; wet things are normally stored in the buttery. Wine and meat must be kept apart, and cellars should be avoided on account of their dampness. Meat should be seethed in summer to keep it fresh, then kept in a cool cellar, soaked in vinegar with juniper seeds and salt. Most yeomen will have vats and presses for making cheeses—a valuable source of protein in the long winter season. Similarly, most livestock owners have troughs for salting meat or allowing it to steep in brine.


–The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England,

Ian Mortimer


What is the central idea of this passage?


A Elizabethans who did not have cellars were unable to properly preserve and store food.

B Many Elizabethans did not know how to properly preserve and store food.

C Elizabethans had to be very careful about properly preserving and storing food. ANSWER is C

Answer 1

C. Elizabethans had to be very careful about properly preserving and storing food.

Step-by-step explanation:

The text shown in the question above shows how Elizabethan people had to be very careful when preserving and properly storing food when they were subjected to a time of poor harvests.

This is because bad harvests meant that the amount of food would be limited, until another harvest was possible. For this reason, the storage of harvested products should be done carefully and very well established. Each food should be stored correctly, preventing it from spoiling and ensuring that it lasts long enough. In this way food waste was avoided and this prevented people from being in need.

Answer 2

Answer: C

Explanation: A poor harvest should be kept well, the proceeds from the harvest should be 'preserved' accordingly.

More wastage to an an already poor harvest is adding salt to the injury. The best to do is enlighten the harvesters on the best way to preserve their proceeds