Read each paragraph and answer the questions that follow by choosing the letter of the correct response.

(I) Because they were so dependent on advertisers, newspapers in the 1800s accepted any ads they could get. (2) Eventually, customers complained, especially about the patent medicines that advertised cures for every imaginable disease and often delivered unwelcome hangovers. (3) (Many of these medicines contained mostly alcohol.) (4) Products like Anti-Corpulence pills claimed they would help someone lose 15 pounds a month: “They cause no sickness, contain no poison and never fail.” (5) Dr. T. Felix Couraud’s Oriental Cream guaranteed it would “remove tan, pimples, freckles, moth patches, rash and skin diseases and every blemish on beauty.”

The topic sentence of this paragraph is
a. sentence 1.
b. sentence 2.
c. sentence 3.
d. sentence 4.


a. sentence 1.

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