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Ignorance

Hunger

Dangerous working conditions

Question 1/9

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

The manor house

The slum area

The mill

Question 2/9

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

They have become aged and worn

They have left the town

They have become ill

Question 3/9

What has happened to the children of Saint Antoine?​

The children have bare feet.

The people’s clothing is wretched.

The price of bread has risen.

Question 4/9

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

The baker has lots of bread.

The people have been made homeless.

The people do not have enough money to buy firewood.

Question 5/9

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

greed

a lack of something

neglect

Question 6/9

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

unwell

expensive

poor quality

Question 7/9

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

good quality

small quantity

large quantity

Question 8/9

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

Personification

Pathetic Fallacy

Simile

Question 10/10

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

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