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In Charles Dickens's Hard Times, who is the utilitarian schoolmaster that demands students focus solely on "facts" and stifles their imagination?
AJosiah Bounderby
BThomas Gradgrind✓
CStephen Blackpool
DJames Harthouse
In Charles Dickens's Hard Times, who is the utilitarian schoolmaster that emphasizes learning only "facts" while discouraging imagination and creativity?
AJosiah Bounderby
BThomas Gradgrind✓
CJames Harthouse
DStephen Blackpool
What is the name of the fictional industrial town where Hard Times mainly takes place?
ACoketown✓
BMudfog
CBleak Hill
DGradgrind
Rationale
In this novel, Dickens creates "Coketown," a bleak, imaginary industrial city that reflects the tough realities of mid-19th-century English manufacturing towns like Manchester or Preston.