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Introduction to the Test: In Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens directs his biting insulting language (that says the opposite of what's meant) against the conditions in English workhouses and the generally terrible treatment of the poor. Though the Poor Law Change Act of 1834 was an attempt to reform welfare laws and their enforcement, conditions under this law were very much/very badly hard for relief receivers. As a follow-up to this reading, students should (ask lots of questions about/try to find the truth about) the Poor Law Change Act of 1834, its purpose, effect, and the bitter (argument-causing event/arguments between people) surrounding it. In the following small section, the (without parents) Oliver has just graduated from the (area controlled by a church) house to the workhouse because he has become nine years old.
Oliver had not been within the walls of the workhouse a quarter of an hour, and had barely completed the destruction of a second slice of bread, when Mr. Bumble, who had handed him over to the care of an old woman, returned, and, telling him it was a board night, informed him that the board had said he was to appear before it immediately.
Not having a very clearly defined idea/plan of what a live board was, Oliver was rather shocked (into silence) by this intelligence, and was not quite certain whether he should laugh or cry. He had no time to think about the matter, however; for Mr. Bumble gave him a tap on the head to wake him up, and another on the back to make him (full of life and energy), and offering to pay for something him
follow, conducted him into a large painted/covered up mistakes room where eight or ten fat gentlemen were sitting round a table, at the top of which, seated in an armchair rather higher than the rest, was an especially fat gentleman with a very round, red face.
"Bow to the Board," said Move unste
Oliver was frightened at the sight of so many gentlemen, which made him shake (with fear or emotion); and the caretaker gave him another tap behind, which made him cry; and these two causes made him answer in a very low and waiting voice; after which a gentleman in a white waistcoat said he was a fool. Which was a capital way of raising his mood, and putting
him quite at ease.
"Boy," said the gentleman in the high chair, "listen to me. You know you're a person (with no parents), I suppose?"
"What's that, sir?" asked poor Oliver.
"The boy is a fool I thought he was," said the gentleman in the white waistcoat, in a very decided tone. If one member of a class be blessed with an (intelligent/obvious) perception of others of the same race, the gentleman in the white waistcoat was definitely well qualified to say an opinion on the matter.
"Hush!" said the gentleman who had spoken first. "You know you've got no father or mother, and that you were brought up by the (area controlled by a church), don't you?"
"Yes, sir," replied Oliver, crying in a bad or angry way.
"I hope you say your prayers every night." said another gentleman in a rude voice; "and pray for the people who feed you, and take care of you like a Christian."
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