The wealthy English landlords had differing responses to their starving tenants. Some landlords did what they could to help their tenants. They instructed their agents to divide up leftover food among the poor farmers. Other landlords ignored the crisis, pretending to be unaware of the death and disease in the countryside. A third group of landlords threw their tenants off the land if they could not pay the rent. The McManus’s landlord was one of these. When Liam McManus’s parents died, their landlord sent his agent to tell Liam and his brothers that they must leave the property. 1 What is the CENTRAL IDEA of this paragraph? a. Starving tenants created different responses among wealthy English landlords. b. Liam McManus’s parents died and they had to leave their property. c. Some landlords sent food to their poor farmers. d. Poor tenants were despised by many of the wealthy English landlords.