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What is the main problem facing the people of Saint Antoine?​

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Dangerous working conditions

Hunger

Ignorance

The text focuses on one particular setting. What is it?​

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The mill

The slum area

The manor house

What has happened to the children of Saint Antoine?​

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They have become ill

They have left the town

They have become aged and worn

​Identify a way that the people’s poverty is shown in the text.

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The price of bread has risen.

The people’s clothing is wretched.

The children have bare feet.

​Identify a way that the people’s poverty is shown in the text.

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The people do not have enough money to buy firewood.

The people have been made homeless.

The baker has lots of bread.

Dickens begins his description with this sentence: ‘it was heavy [with] cold, dirt, sickness, ignorance and want’. What does ‘want’ in this sentence mean?​

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neglect

a lack of something

greed

‘Hunger was pushed out of the tall houses, in the wretched clothing that hung upon the poles and lines’. What does ‘wretched’ mean?​

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poor quality

expensive

unwell

‘Hunger was repeated in every fragment of the small modicum of firewood that the man sawed off’. What does ‘modicum’ mean?​

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large quantity

small quantity

good quality

What technique is used in the following quotation, 'Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys'?

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Simile

Pathetic Fallacy

Personification

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