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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.

1. in creon’s first words to the chorus, what are the “storms” that threatened to destroy the ship of state?   polynices’ invation of the city with foreign armies was the “storms” eteocles and polynices decided to switch the crown every year, but after eteocles’ first year decided not to share it with polynices. polynices joined forces with foreign armies to invade the city and tried to take the crown from his brother, where he and eteocles killed each other   2. examine creon’s opening speech. what are his concerns? how does he feel about the city and its citizens? what are his motivations for banning the burial of polyneices? what would drive creon to place the concerns of the collective citizens over those of his family?   in creon’s opening speech, his concerns are to count on his citizens to rule. in addition, he wanted to give a clear message by not giving a proper burial to polyneices, if creon gave a proper burial to polyneices his people would think that he was an allied to the foreign forces that invaded the city and threatened the peace of his people.   creon placed the concerns of the collective citizens because he has no use for those who put individual concerns over the needs of his people 3. pay attention to creon’s speech at the beginning of the scene. what does creon think someone’s first loyalty should be and what comes second? do you think he is correct under some conditions? do you think he is wrong in some conditions? explain those conditions. creon thinks someone’s first loyalty should be with the concerns of the collective citizens and second comes our individual wants. i think he is correct because true loyalty takes place in the benefits of many not of a few.   4. what news is the sentry reluctant to deliver?   the sentry is reluctant to say that polyneices had a burial. 5. who does the chorus suggest might have done this?   the chorus suggests that the gods have done that 6. what is creon’s reaction and who does creon think is responsible? creon reacted abruptly and thinks it was a man who bribed his guard to bury polyneices