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In this excerpt from Hard Times by Charles Dickens, which lines include images of the horrors of industrialization?

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 for ever 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 state of melancholy madness.
… You saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely workful. If the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there - as the members of eighteen religious persuasions had done - they made it a pious warehouse of red brick, with sometimes (but this is only in highly ornamental examples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it. The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs.

Answer choices: (Note, more than one sentence can be selected)
A. it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.

B. serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled.

C. black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye.

D. If the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there - as the members of eighteen religious persuasions had done - they made it a pious warehouse of red brick, with sometimes (but this is only in highly ornamental examples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it.

E. The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs.

Answer 1

A, B, and C show the horrors of industrialization.

Industrialization included the building of many factories in cities. These factories were not clean and had no environmental protection rules to follow. They spewed out black soot all over the city making the city dark and dirty. In options A, B, and C this horrid blackness is described. Option A compares the soot covered town to a savage, which has an evil dangerous connotation. Option B compares the black smoke from the factories to a snake looming over the city never leaving. Option C talks of a polluted river full of the nastiness of the industries and factories that were built during Industrialization. All of these images show how industrialization has turned the town into a place crawling with black serpents, pollutants, and savages.

Answer 2

Answer:A. it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.

B. serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled.

C. black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye.

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