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Post Test: The Victorian Era
Select the correct text in the passage.
In this excerpt from Hard Times by Charles Dickens, which three sections 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 ton 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 meang oye,
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 worful if the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there - as the members
of eighteen religious persuasions had done- they made it a plous warehouse of red brick with sometimes but this is only in highly omamental
examples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it The solitary exception was the New Church a stuccoed edifice with a souare steeple over the
door terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs.