Read the Paragraph Below and Answer the Questions That Follow

Multiple Choice

Read the paragraph below and answer the questions that follow.
(1) Rulers and governments have a long history of censoring or destroying books and other forms of expression that they find objectionable. (2) A book dictated by the prophet Jeremiah was burned by King Jehoiakim of Judah in 603 B.C.; and in the third century B.C., the Chinese emperor Shih Hwang-ti, who did things in a big way (he built the Great Wall) , ordered the burning of all books, with the exception of those dealing with science, medicine, or agriculture. (3) Even philosophers have been in favor of censorship. (4) In the Republic , for example, Plato proposed to censor "the writers of fiction" in order to keep "bad" works away from children.
⎯ Arthur Miller, Miller's Court ,
Published April 1, 1983 by Plume, p. 71
Select the number of the topic sentence in the paragraph above.

A) Sentence 1
B) Sentence 2
C) Sentence 4