Deuteron electrodisintegration cross sections near 180' have been measured near breakup threshold for the four-momentum transfer squared Q' range 1.21—2.76 (GeV/c) . Evidence for a change of slope in the cross section near Q =1 (GeV/c ) has been obtained. The data are compared to nonrelativistic calculations, which predict a strong influence of meson-exchange currents. The data are also compared to a hybrid quark-hadron model ~ None of these calculations agrees with the data over the entire measured range of Q'. The ratio of inelastic structure functions W, (Q', E„~)/Wz(Q', E„~)is extracted from the present results and previous forward angle data. No prediction is in good agreement with the deduced ratios at small relative energy E„~.