Which best summarizes the information found in paragraph three?
a) seven dollars could buy a lot more in the 1800's than it can today.
b) slaves were provided with an absolute mininum of food and clothing to survive.
c) wealthy masters and landowners were often unwilling to sell or punish their slaves.
d) slave children were cared for by their mothers or other slave women too old to work.

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Which sentences from part 1 of the call of the wild would best serve as evidence of the theme "sometimes survival depends on knowing when not to fight"? buck had accepted the rope with quiet dignity. to be sure, it was an unwonted performance: but he had learned to trust in men he knew, and to give them credit for a wisdom that outreached his own. he had merely intimated his displeasure, in his pride believing that to intimate was to command. but to his surprise the rope tightened around his neck, shutting off his breath. he saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. he had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it. that had given them an unfair advantage; but now that it was off, he would show them. they would never get another rope around his neck.

In the excerpt above, what can be inferred by the statement, "the dillingham had been flung to the breeze during aformer period of prosperity.?