Best-selling newspapers, pamphlets, and books in the mid-nineteenth century __________.
A. mainly appealed to a well-educated audience
B. fed the popular appetite for sensationalism and scandal
C. were mainly reprints of European authors
D. were too expensive for working-class people
Answer: B
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