Which of the following best concludes this paragraph by reinforcing ideas presented in this sentence and the preceding one?

It was a thankless job, and although the Department building itself covered almost one hundred acres (in New York City, there was an entire island devoted to it), no one paid the Department of Corrections much mind. Most people never come near a jail cell, so it's easy for them to dismiss inmates as totally removed from society.

Which of the following true statements would best conclude the paragraph by emphasizing the change that Alexander's rule brought to Macedonia?

Alexander came to cultivate the image himself, bolstered by his keen intellect and learning, quickened in part by his tutor, the great Greek philosopher Aristotle. Pella was at that time a backwater of Greek culture, and his arrival announced a new era of what historians would later call "enlightened monarchy,"  even though that term is used much more to describe monarchies in the eighteenth century.

The author wants to insert an introductory phrase or clause at the beginning of this sentence that will emphasize the continuity Alexander's reign had with the previous one. Which of the following choices would most effectively give this emphasis?

Which of the following true phrases gives the most specific information in the context?

For much of the nineteenth century, Americans consumed fiction, poetry, and non-fiction by way of literary periodicals. Some of our best-known authors from this period, though there were also some notable exceptions, published something close to their complete works between the pages of countless periodicals.

 If the author were to remove the phrase "for an actual book" (ending the sentence at the word clamoring), the sentence would lose

By the time the novel's forty-week run had concluded, however, publishers were clamoring for an actual book. That book went on to become the first American bestseller.

Things started to change around the Civil War. Harriet Beecher Stowe's great  novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin had been an enormously popular serial novel in the abolitionist periodical The National Era. By the time the novel's forty-week run had concluded, however, publishers were clamoring for an actual book. That book went on to become the first American bestseller.  And it showed that Americans were willing to pay for books, which had, to that point, been too expensive to print and subsequently to buy. (5)

At this point, the writer is considering adding the following true statement:

The average annual income for men in New England from 1820-1850 was a mere $323.25.

Should the writer make this addition here?