Excerpt from Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt [1] My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born. Instead, they returned to Ireland when I was four, my brother, Malachy, three the twins, Oliver and Eugene, barely one, and my sister, Margaret, dead and gone. [2] When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. [3] People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version:the poverty; the shiftless Based on the context of the paragraph, what is "catarrh"? ) A Catholic ritual An Irish medicinal herb Poverty A respiratory or sinus problem

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Excerpt from Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt [1] My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born. Instead, they returned to Ireland when I was four, my brother, Malachy, three the twins, Oliver and Eugene, barely one, and my sister, Margaret, dead and gone. [2] When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. [3] People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version:the poverty; the shiftless Based on the context of the paragraph, what is "catarrh"? ) A Catholic ritual An Irish medicinal herb Poverty A respiratory or sinus problem

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## Step 1The problem is asking us to identify the meaning of the word "catarrh" based on the context of the paragraph. The paragraph discusses the miserable childhood of the author, which is described as the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.## Step 2The word "catarrh" is not directly mentioned in the paragraph, but it is used in the context of the author's childhood experiences. The author describes his childhood as miserable, and the word "catarrh" is used to describe a condition that could be associated with such a miserable childhood.## Step 3The word "catarrh" is a medical term that refers to a condition characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes in the respiratory tract, such as the nose and throat. This condition can cause symptoms such as a runny nose, sore throat, and coughing, which could contribute to the author's description of his childhood as miserable.## Step 4Based on the context and the meaning of the word "catarrh", the correct answer is "A respiratory or sinus problem".

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