Reading Comprehension (RC) | Re: Increasingly, historians are blaming diseases imported from the

1. The primary purpose of the passage is to

(A) refute a common misconception
(B) provide support for a hypothesis
(C) analyze an argument
(D) suggest a solution to a dilemma
(E) reconcile opposing viewpoints

Often, for main idea questions it is possible to just skim just the intro and conclusion paragraphs to get the main idea. The passage begins by positing a theory that "historians are blaming diseases imported from the Old World for the staggering disparity between the indigenous population
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