Base your answers to question 1 on the excerpt below and on your knowledge of social studies.

"Citizens avoided citizens [because of the illness) ... that in the horror thereof brother was forsaken by

brother, nephew by uncle, brother by sister, and oftentimes husband by wife; nay, what is more, and

scarcely to be believed, fathers and mothers were found to abandon their own children, untended,

unvisited, to their fate, as if they had been strangers"

Source: Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1353

1. A historian would study this document in order to understand the

A) spread of the flu virus during the early 1900s

B) brutality of the Ottoman attack against the Byzantine Empire

C) treatment of native and foreign born people in Ming China

D) breakdown of social order during the bubonic Plague