Read the excerpt from the time traveler's guide to elizabethan england. there is no concept of "health and safety" in elizabethan england, so you will inevitably feel vulnerable when you arrive. nauseating smells and sights will assail your senses; contemporary standards of cleanliness will worry you. people die every day from unknown ailments, the young as often as the old. infectious diseases periodically kill thousands within a few weeks. even when plague is not in town, it lurks as an anxiety in the back of people’s minds and, when it does strike, their worry turns to terror. on top of the illnesses, the chances of being attacked and hurt are much higher than in the modern world, and workplace injuries are far more common. what is the topic of this paragraph?

8. "caged bird" right now, i feel like a bird caged without a key everyone comes to stare at me with so much joy and reverie they don't know how i feel inside through my smile, i cry they don't know what they're doing to me keeping me from flying that's why i say i know why the caged bird sings only joy comes from song she's so rare and beautiful to others why not just set her free? so she can fly, fly, fly spreading her wings and her song let her fly, fly fly for the whole world to see she's like caged bird fly, fly ooh just let her fly just let her fly just let her fly spread the wings spread the beauty what is the allusion found in the poem? question 8 options: a) alicia keys b) i know why the caged bird sings c) spreading her wings and her song d) fly, fly, fly