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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.
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
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