Railroad companies made it difficult on farmers by - A. only picking up crops from farmers once a year
B. making the farmers pay extremely high rates to ship their crops
C. making farmers pay annual dues of $1,000 to the railroad company
D. accepting bribes from the state governments and large corporations
(This is talking about during the Progressive Era)

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. obierika was a man who thought about things. when the will of the goddess had been done, he sat down in his obi and mourned his friend’s calamity. why should a man suffer so grievously for an offense he had committed inadvertently? (p. 125) based on the context clues, the best definition for the word “calamity” in the excerpt above is disaster sadness luck indifference