Charles Dickens, from Hard Times
Read from Hard Times and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.
1. What is the setting of Dickens’s story?
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2. What does the speaker of the story think is most important?
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3. How does the narrator of the story describe the speaker?
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4. At the end of the excerpt, what do the others do in response to the speaker?
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5. What is the best description for the tone of Dickens’s story?
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