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Which excerpt from The Great Fire reflects the theme that rebuilding is possible after a disaster if people join together?

A. An exhausted Chamberlin came to the Randolph Street Bridge and discovered “a torrent of humanity pouring over the bridge.”
B. A few were rushing to get out a special edition about the fire, while the rest were on the roof hosing it down with water.
C. “He had taken a dray, but was unable to load all of his goods into the vehicle, so he employed half a dozen boys, gave each of them a coffin, took a large one himself, and headed the weird procession…”
D. “It [was] common to see ten or a dozen or fifty houses rising at once; but when one looks upon, not a dozen or fifty, but upon ten thousand houses rising and ten times that number of busy workmen coming and going …”

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D

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Answer:B

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