Which sentence BEST expresses the main idea of paragraph 5? A) There was nothing good about the country. B) The people were miserable, destitute, and dejected because they had nothing. C) Because the people were of a savage nature they did not take pride in anything they did. D) While the country’s infrastructure was poorly designed and managed, they were able to do other things well.
paragraph : 5 The whole country was covered with forests, and swamps. The greater part of it was very misty and cold. There were no roads, no bridges, no streets, no houses that you would think deserving of the name. A town was nothing but a collection of straw-covered huts, hidden in a thick wood, with a ditch all round, and a low wall, made of mud, or the trunks of trees placed one upon another. The people planted little or no corn, but lived upon the flesh of their flocks and cattle. They made no coins, but used metal rings for money. They were clever in basket-work, as savage people often are; and they could make a coarse kind of cloth, and some very bad earthenware. But in building fortresses they were much more clever.
