Read the passage and answer the question: "athenians suffered further hardship [from the plague] owing to the crowding into the city of people from the country districts; and this affected the new arrivals especially. for since no houses were available for them, and they had to live in huts that were stifling [hot and without air] in the hot season, they perished [died] in wild disorder. bodies of dying men lay one upon another and half-dead people rolled about in the streets and, in their longing [desire] for water, near all the fountains. the temples, too, in which they had quarter [sheltered] themselves were full of the corpses of those who had died in them; for the calamity [disaster] which weighed upon them was so overpowering that men, not knowing what was to become of them, became careless of all law" according to the passage, why were many corpses found near the city's fountains? a. sick people longed for water b. sick people longed to bathe. c. the plague was spread by water. d. there was no place else to put them.