“Go into any of the ‘respectable’ tenement neighborhoods . . . you shall come away agreeing [that] . . . life there does not seem worth living. . . . [T]he airshaft. . . . seems always so busy letting out foul stenches . . . that it has no time to earn its name by bringing down fresh air.” —Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives Based on this quote and the title of his book, why do you think Riis wrote what he did? * A. to pressure public officials to tear down tenements in cities
B. to encourage public discussion of poverty in cities
C. to call attention to increasing criminal activity in cities
D. to dissuade further migration to cities from rural areas