A. Use the quotation about industrialization and your knowledge of world history to answer questions 1 and 2.

"It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it. . . . It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable [endless] serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever. . . . It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next."

-CHARLES DICKENS, Hard Times

1. In this passage, the writer is trying to describe how

A. people came from the countryside to the city to work in industry.

B. entrepreneurs built factories.

C. capitalism works.

D. difficult life is for workers in industrial cities.

2. What is Dickens’s view of industrialization?

A. that it is good for factory owners

B. that it brings progress to a nation

C. that it pollutes the air and exploits the workers

D. that it causes population growth