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1) Hard Times was writing by

Charles Dickens

Dan brawn

William Shakespeare

2) Charles Dickens was born ....... and death .....

February 7, 1812 ....... June 9, 1870

February 7, 1982 ....... June 9, 1990

Augest 7, 1812 ....... March 9, 1870

3) He was a British novelist, journalist, editor, illustrator and social commentator who wrote such beloved classic novels as Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations.

William Shakespeare

Charles Dickens

Dan brawn

4) Dickens is remembered as.....

an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language

known by his pen name Dante Alighieri or simply as Dante

one of the most important and influential writers of the 19th century.

5) Hard Times takes place in an industrial town (..........) at the peak of economic expansion. Published in

jamestown ....... 1854

New York ...... 1854

Coketown ....... 1854

6) the book focuses on the shortcomings of employers as well as those who seek change.

Hard Times (1854)

Romeo and Juliet (1595)

inferno (2013)

7) a wealthy, retired merchant in the industrial city of Coketown, England, devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism, self-interest.

Josiah Bounderby

Thomas Gradgrind

Louisa

8) Thomas Gradgrind founds a school and charitably takes in one of the students, the kindly and imaginative.........after the disappearance of her father, a circus entertainer

Louisa

Maria

Sissy Jupe

9) As the Gradgrind children grow older, Tom becomes a dissipated, self-interested hedonist, and .......... struggles with deep inner confusion, feeling as though she is missing something important in her life.

Louisa

Maria

Sissy Jupe

10) Eventually Louisa marries Gradgrind’s friend ............, a wealthy factory owner and banker more than twice her age.

Merrylegs

Stephen Blackpool

Josiah Bounderby

11) ....... continually trumpets his role as a self-made man who was abandoned in the gutter by his mother as an infant.

Stephen Blackpool

Josiah Bounderby

Thomas Gradgrind

12) Stephen Blackpool struggles with his love for ........, another poor factory worker. He is unable to marry her because he is already married to a horrible, drunken woman who disappears for months and even years at a time.

Rachael

Sissy

Louisa

13) Stephen visits ........ to ask about a divorce but learns that only the wealthy can obtain them.

Tomas

Gradgrind

Bounderby

14) Racheal is :

the mysterious woman who broke into his room in the dark.

a simple, honest Hand who loves Stephen Blackpool. To Stephen, she represents domestic happiness and moral purity.

the daughter of Mr. Gradgrind

15) Mr. Sleary :

is the lisping owner of the circus where Sissy’s father was an entertainer

A Hand in Bounderby’s factory.

Sissy’s father

16) Bitzer is :

is the lisping owner of the circus where Sissy’s father was an entertainer

one of the successes produced by Gradgrind’s rationalistic system of education.

17) Mr. M'Choakumchild is :

the unpleasant teacher at Gradgrind’s school. As his name suggests, McChoakumchild is not overly fond of children.

one of the successes produced by Gradgrind’s rationalistic system of education.

A Hand in Bounderby’s factory

18) Mrs. Sparsit is:

the daughter of a member of Sleary circus

a simple, honest Hand who loves Stephen Blackpool.

Bounderby’s housekeeper.

19) Dickens employed an astonishing range of poetic devices, such as.....

food,drinks and dance

repetition, rhythm, symbol, metaphor, and metonymy.

music,books,games and movies

20) is a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable.

Rhythm

Repetition

Metaphor

21) is a literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly in verse form.

Rhythm

Metaphor

Symbols

22) writers use it to convey specific meanings. Different ........ refer to different things depending on the readers’ circumstances

Repetition

Rhythm

Symbols

23) comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.

Rhythm

Metaphor

Repetition

24) replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. “Let me give you a hand.” (Hand means help.)

Metaphor

Metonymy

Symbols

25) “It was a disheartening circumstance, but a melancholy fact, that even these readers persisted in wondering.

Example from the Book Three of Hard Times

Example from the Book One of Hard Times

Example from the Book Tow of Hard Times

26) ....... is the house of Mr. Gradgrind. It probably represents the rigidness of his philosophy

“Stone Lodge”

“Stone Mansion”

“Stone cave”

27) Cecilia Jupe is called Sissy by the ........ while Bounderby and Mr. Gradgrind call her Cecilia. Here the ........ seems to be against Mr. Gradgrind’s philosophy of which is characterized by rigidness, formality, and inflexibility.

narrator

Tom

Luisa

28) “Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the mind of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them.” p.9 These are the novel’s opening lines, Spoken by :

Mr. Gradgrind

Josiah Bounderby

Thomas Gradgrind Junior

29) ....... suggests to us that facts alone cannot bring intellectual pleasure.

Smith

Shakespeare

Dickens

30) “She stopped, at twilight, at the door of a mean little public- house, with dim red lights in it. As haggard and as shabby, as if, for want of custom, it had itself taken to drinking, and had gone the way all drunkards go, and was very near the end of it.” p.32

The above passage is narrated before Sissy finds the disappearance of her father.

The above passage is narrated before Sissy finds the death of her father.

The above passage is narrated before Sissy finds the birth of her father.

31) ...... is the period of the day where the sun goes down and the darkness of the nigh is approaching. The use of ........ here is important because it represents a period or state of obscurity, ambiguity, or gradual decline.

Sundown

Twilight

Afternoon

32) This passage can be looked at as...........of what is going to happen in the future.

foreshadowing

forwarding

backwarding

33) Its meaning: ............. hints at the possible outcome in the future, without any interruption.

backwarding

Foreshadowing

Foredancing

34) “Thou art an Angel: it may be, thou hast saved my soul alive.” p.89 is often referred to as an angel by Stephen..........

Sissy Jupe

Luisa

Rachael

35) She represents the qualities necessary to counteract the dehumanizing, morally corrupting effects of industrialization. and symbolically stands for purity. She is a symbol more than a character

Rachael

Sissy Jupe

Luisa

36) suggests that nineteenth-century England’s overzealous adoption of industrialization threatens to turn human beings into machines by preventing the development of their emotions and imaginations. This suggestion comes forth largely through the actions of Gradgrind and his follower, Bounderby: as the former educates the young children of his family and his school in the ways of fact, the latter treats the workers in his factory as emotionless objects that are easily exploited for his own self-interest

Hamlet

Hard Times

Inferno

37) Mr. Gradgrind tries to convince Louisa to marry Bounderby. Bounderby has been there ever since Louisa was a child,She is 20 years old while Bounderby is 50.

At the end of Book one

At the beginning of Book one

At the end of Book tow

38) Mr. Gradgrind thinks they are a good match because Louisa is not .........nor is Bounderby. Both are accustomed to reason and calculations.

comedy

romantic

happy

39) Louisa has accepted Bounderby’s proposal to be near ...............he was working with Bounderby in the bank.

her brother Tom

James Harthouse

jhon smith

40) a wealthy young sophisticate from London, arrives in Coketown to begin a political career as a disciple of Gradgrind, who is now a Member of Parliament. He immediately takes an interest in Louisa

her brother Tom

James Harthouse

hon smith

41) The Hands, urged by ......, try to form a union. Only Stephen refuses to join because he feels that a union strike would only increase tensions between employers and employees.

James Harthouse

blackbridge

Slackbridge

42) He is cast out by the other Hands and fired by Bounderby when he refuses to spy on them. Louisa, impressed with ........ ntegrity, visits him before he leaves Coketown and helps him with some money. Tom accompanies her and tells Stephen that if he waits outside the bank for several consecutive nights, help will come to him. Stephen does so, but no help arrives.

Stephen’s i

jhonathan

James Harthouse

43) the mother of Bounderby. In the beginning she was unknown and mysterious woman who comes and asks about Bounderby. Her appearance exposed her son and his lies, mainly that he is a self-made man and that he was abandoned as a child.

Jane Gradgrind

Mrs. Pegler

Mrs. Mcoen

44) Gradgrind’s younger daughter

Luisa

Jane

Sissy

45) The crooked orator who convinces the Hands to unionize and turns them against Stephen Blackpool when he refuses to join the union.

Tom

Gradgrind

Slackbridge

46) “Look how we live, an’ wheer we live, an’ in what numbers, an’ by what chances, an’ wi’ what sameness; and look how the mills is awlus a-goin’”. Pp.147-8 Similarly, Stephen’s dialect illustrates his lack of education and contrasts with the proper English spoken by.........

the middle-class characters and by the narrator

the first-class characters and by the narrator

the low-class characters and by the narrator

47) In spite of his lack of formal education, however, Stephen possesses greater insight about the relationship between employer and employee than does .....

Gradgrind

Bounderby

Slackbridge

48) “Coketown lay shrouded in a haze of its own, which appeared impervious to the sun’s rays.”p.111 Similarly, the sun’s rays represent both.............. that Coketown lacks.

the physical and moral beauty

the industrial and moral beauty

the dark and moral beauty

49) While Mr. Gradgrind insists that his children should always stick to the facts, Hard Times not only suggests that fancy is as important as fact, but it continually calls into question the difference between...........

fact and fancy

romance ind humer

ironic and comedy

50) ............... Dickens is naturally interested in illustrating that fiction cannot be excluded from a fact-filled, mechanical society

As a singer

As a novelist

As an actor

51) an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Allusion

A story

A poem

52) is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks. These stories concern the origin and the nature of the world, the lives and activities of deities, heroes, and mythological creatures.

Egyptian mythology

Greek mythology

philosophy mythology

53) Ancient Greek Mythology has a great impact on......

western civilization

eastern civilization

northern civilization

54) is one of three sisters with snakes for hair, Medusa is the most famous of them, who had the power to turn anyone who looked at them to stone.

A goddess

A Pegasus

A gorgon

55) James Harthouse thinks that Louisa will be as her father Mr. Gradgrind, a gorgon who wishes to turn people into the rigid nature of his philosophy. But when he met Lousia, he was surprised by her....

beauty

cleaver

sense

56) is a mythical winged divine horse and one of the most recognized creatures in Greek mythology

A Pegasus

A gorgon

A goddess

57) Dickens is employing the ............ to show us that Sleary and his company are believers of the importance of imagination and sentiment over rationalism and reason.

A goddess

A gorgon

A Pegasus

58) For a better understanding of a story, the reader ought to pay attention to the.........

Food,Drinks and Fun

weather, time, and environment

rhythm,metaphor and symbols

59) is an important factor in interpreting a story. For example, sunny is usually related to happiness and positivity.

Weather

Time

Environment

60) day or night. Modern setting or medieval. A story happening in the night might imply a sense of mysteriousness.

Weather

Time

Environment

61) it could be a depiction of roads, buildings, and trees. For example: a rocky road might mean obstacles and hardships are ahead.

Weather

Time

Environment

62) Dickens writes "the next morning was too bright a morning" , just before Bounderby's discovery of the.....

story

robbery

thunder

63) When......... tries to return to clear his good name, he falls into a mining pit called Old Hell Shaft. Rachael and Louisa discover him, but he dies soon after an emotional farewell to Rachael.

Tom

Stephen

Bounderby

64) Gradgrind and Louisa realize that .......... is really responsible for robbing the bank, and they arrange to sneak him out of England with the help of the circus performers with whom Sissy spent her early childhood.

Tom

Stephen

Bounderby

65) a young man who went to Gradgrind’s school and who embodies all the qualities of the detached rationalism that Gradgrind once espoused, but who now sees its limits.

Bitzer

Tom

Sleary

66) Angrily, Bounderby fires ........... and sends her away to her hostile relatives

Mrs. Pegler

Mrs.Sparsit

Luisa

67) Five years later, ........... will die alone in the streets of Coketown.

Bounderby

Gradgrind

Tom

68) gives up his philosophy of fact and devotes his political power to helping the poor

Bounderby

Gradgrind

Tom

69) realizes the error of his ways but dies without ever seeing his family again.

Bounderby

Gradgrind

Tom

70) While ......... marries and has a large and loving family

Sissy

Luisa

Raichel

71) ......... never again marries and never has children.

Sissy

Luisa

Raichel

72) ............ dies looking up at the stars after being rescued from a mine shaft

Tom

Stephen Blackpool

Richard

73) The most far-reaching, influential transformation of human culture since the advent of agriculture eight or ten thousand years ago was the.......

industrial revolution of the fifteen-century Europe.

industrial revolution of the eighteenth-century Europe.

industrial revolution of the twentieth-century Europe.

74) The industrial Revolution also changed the lives of people in the

18th century.

19th century.

14th century.

75) England was a purely rural and agricultural society in the....

modren ages.

middle ages.

first ages.

76) People lived and worked at farms in what is so called the age of .......... ; their entire life was limited to farming the fields like slaves and serving the landlords. There was no other ambitions, no further interests.

morenaism

feudalism

sevelism

77) Before The Industrial Revolution....

No transportation -No communication

No hospitals - No machines

No universities or large-scale production

All above

78) Some of the Positive Effects of the Industrial Revolution:

It changed society from stagnation to turmoil (change)

It made it easier for people to get in touch.

It made means of transportation, travelling, and exploration easier.

It created more resources of knowledge like books and magazines

All above

79) Some of the Passive Effects of the Industrial Revolution:

Environmental Pollution

Poor health conditions

Materialism

Lack of interest in education

all above

80) Some of the Passive Effects of the Industrial Revolution:

Labor of women and children

The weakness of the family structure

The poverty of some classes of people

Hunger, diseases, deaths

all above

81) was the first movement both working class in character and national in scope that grew out of the protest against the injustices of the new industrial and political order in Britain.

Modernism

Chartism

non above

82) Chartism movement have six main demands....

votes for all men - equal electoral districts

abolition of the requirement that Members of Parliament be property owners

annual general elections - The secret ballot - payment for M.P.S

all above

83) In 1853 ..... workers in Lancashire began to demand that the 10-20% cut from their wages during the 1840s was restored.

cotton

factory

corn

84) The majority of manufacturers agreed to restore half of the cuts, but some, including Horrocks, Miller and Company refused. The workers went on strike. The bitter struggle lasted for....

eight years

eight months

three months

85) "On Strike,” is a short piece that discusses the Preston strike, a contemporary strike of cotton workers. Published by.....

William shakespeare in Hmelt

Dickens in 1854 in his magazine Household Words,

Dan Brawn in Inferno

86) During the ........., women were commonly associated with supposedly feminine traits like compassion, moral purity, and emotional sensitivity.

Victorian era

Elizabethan era

Regency era

87) Similarly,...... introduces love into the Gradgrind household, ultimately teaching Louisa how to recognize her emotions.

Rachael

Sissy

Mrs.Gradgrind

88) Through the various female characters in the novel, .........suggests that feminine compassion is necessary to restore social harmony.

Dickens

shakespeare

Gradgrind

89) “The ground on which I stand has ceased to be solid under my feet.” Said by Gradgrind at..... It means that he no longer believes in the philosophy of rationalism and self-interest.

the end of the book.

the beginning of the book.

the middle of the book.

90) Hard Times is dedicated to ........... is a social thinker whose vision of human connections influenced Dickens profoundly.

Charles Dickens

Thomas Carlyle

William Shakespeare

91) For Dickens in the ........... society in general seems to hold little hope for individual renewal.

1890s

1850s

1800s

92) Hard Times book is consisted of three parts:

Part one: sowing

Part two: Reaping

Part three: Garnering

All above

93) The ending of Hard Times seems ...... because the circus that Gradgrind thinks of as damaging and corrupting his children, is the same circus that rescued Tom, his son, from the authorities.

ironic

romantic

poetic

94) “And at that time the pale, worn, patient face was seen looking up at the sky, with the broken right hand lying bare on the outside of the covering garments, as if waiting to be taken by another hand.” p.262 Referring to:

Tom Gradgrind

Stephen Blackpool

Bundebury

95) “Another hand” might have two meanings. One literal and one metaphorical The hand here might literally mean ........ hand. He is waiting Rachael to take up his hand to soothe his agony and pain. The metaphorical meaning is that he waiting for .....take his soul because he is sick of this rotten world.

Rachael’s - God

Luisa's - god

96) “Here was Louisa on the night of the same day, watching the fire as in days of yore.”p.286 There are kinds of fire in Hard times.

The fire burning in the mines and factories has negative connotation.

The fire that Louisa is watching has a positive connotation as it feeds the imagination. By watching the fire, Louisa free her imagination to wonder.

all above

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