Engl 2103 - Quiz 6
This quiz is based on Hard Times Book 2, and lecture material related to it.
- 1.In "Hard Times", Sparsit and Harthouse are representative of this group:
- A.
The aristocracy
- B.
The poor
- C.
The wealthy middle-class
- D.
The workers
- 2.As discussed in class, this character emerges as the protagonist in "Hard Times - Book the Second":
- A.
Louisa
- B.
Thomas Gradgrind
- C.
Harthouse
- D.
Blackpool
- 3.In "Hard Times", after Stephen is fired from his job at the factory, he is met on the street by Rachel and _________.
- A.
Mrs. Peglar
- B.
Louisa
- C.
Slackbridge
- D.
Mrs. Sparsit
- 4.In "Hard Times", when Louisa and Tom meet Blackpool in his room after he was fired, Louisa offers him money. What does Blackpool do?
- A.
He only takes a little bit and promises to pay it back
- B.
He takes all of the money from her
- C.
He refuses to take any of the money
- D.
He tells her he'd rather have his job back
- 5.In "Hard Times - Book the Second", Thomas Gradgrind is working in London as ___________.
- A.
A Member of Parliament
- B.
A school teacher
- C.
A unionist
- D.
A university professor
- 6.Tom Gradgrind tells Blackpool to do this in order to improve his fortunes after he was fired by Bounderby in "Hard Times"
- A.
Hang around the bank for several nights in a row
- B.
Blackmail Bounderby
- C.
Get a job at the bank
- D.
Move to Sheffield
- 7.At the end of "Hard Times - Book the Second", Louisa expresses her confusion and emotional collapse to her father. At the end of her outburst, she does this:
- A.
Collapses on the floor
- B.
Kills herself
- C.
Leaves his home
- D.
Retires to her room
- 8.As discussed in class during a "Hard Times" lecture, at the end of "Book the Second", Professor Hamilton suggested that the villains are winning.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.In "Hard Times - Book the Second", two plot lines appear to be emerging in this novel. One is Louisa's marriage to Bounderby. The other is this:
- A.
Blackpool and the union
- B.
Tom Gradgrind's trickery
- C.
Sissy's role as imaginative help in Gradgrind's home
- D.
Bounderby's new factory
- 10.In "Hard Times - Book the Second", Mrs. Gradgrind dies.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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