Question

18. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
In his novel Hard Times, Charles Dickens (1812-70), perhaps the most severe contemporary critic of the
horrors of industrialisation for the poor, wrote a fictional account of an industrial town he aptly called Coke
town. 'It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it;
but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town
of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves forever and
ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and
vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the
piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a stare of
melancholy madness.'
i.
ii.
(a) Who wrote this excerpt?
(b) What was the name of the book?
How does he describe the town?
Which period and country is the author talking about?
chi (1835-1901)
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Answer 1

Answer:

charles Dickens wrote this excerpt.

Answer 2

Answer:

a. Charles Dickens

b. Hard Times

c. it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town

of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves forever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a stare of melancholy madness.'

d. 1812-70

Explanation:

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