The effects of the War of the Worlds broadcast were particularly amazing considering

A) how well educated the U.S. population was in 1938.
B) that H.G. Wells' story was in most French literature anthologies.
C) scientific knowledge and understanding was so well understood at the time.
D) the announcer said the show was fiction at four points during the broadcast.


Answer: D

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