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(1) mass hysteria is a type of group behavior that involves a widely held and contagious anxiety, usually as a result of a false belief. (2) the reaction in part of the country to the 1938 radio broadcast of the war of the worlds is one example. (3) this dramatization of martians landing on earth was so realistic that people began to panic and flee before the realization set in that they were reacting to a radio play. (4) the medieval witch-hunts are another good example of mass hysteria. (5) they were based on the belief that witches were the cause of many problems in late medieval society, including natural disasters and illness. (6) those accused of being witches (mainly old women) were tortured until they confessed or they died. (7) as many as 500,000 people were burned to death by the clergy between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.

q. the major supporting details of this paragraph are

a. definitions.

b. causes.

c. comparisons.

d. examples.

The answer is "D. examples."

I picked this answer because each sentence in this paragraph explained hysteria our society by using examples. The examples used include WW, fake alien landing, and fake witches being burned.

given the fact that the question is about the detail that best support the idea that oppressive leaders use   propaganda to achieve thir goals,   the first option does not refer to any kind of propaganda, since it only tells about that the milk and the windfall apple should be reserved for the pigs. in the second option, that is, "snowball and napoleon sent out flights of pigeons whose instructions were to mingle with the animals on the neighbouring farms, tell them the story of the rebellion, and teach them the tune of "beasts of england". it can be identified that the oppressors make use of the propaganda, which is represented by the pigeons, and the information they have to tell other animals about what was happening in the farm in order to get their objectives. for that reason, the right answer is the second option, taking into account that the third option do not refer to propaganda since it only talks about that they did not want jones back. and, finally, the last option refers to the result of the given news, but it does not mean about the propaganda they used to achieve their goals.

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