1st Semester Exam Review
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| In Hard Times, on what principle is Thomas Gradgrind's teaching style base? | Teach boys and girls nothing but facts.
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| What is Dickens's purpose in describing Thomas Gradgrind as a "cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts" who will blow his students "clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge"? | to reveal hatred of Gradgrind's inflexible and close-minded teaching style
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| In Hard Times, who are the "little pitchers" waiting to be filled with facts? | all students
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| Why does Dickens have Gradgrind refer to Sissy Jupe as "girl number twenty"? | to criticize the fact that students in the overpopulated school are treated as numbers, not individuals
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| What is Dickens's purpose in describing the schoolmasters as being "turned out at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs"? | to attack the cold, mechanical nature of the teachers' approach to education
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| What does Thomas Gradgrind's name suggest? | the way he forces his ideas into the heads of his students
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| In this selection from Hard Times, Charles Dickens is mainly criticizing... | schools that smother imagination and treat children like machines.
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| Why does Dickens write that Mr. Gradgrind is "readyto weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to"? | so that the reader will recognize that it is impossible to "weigh and measure" human nature
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| What is Mr. Gradgrind's opinion of horse riders? | He does not approve of them.
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| What is the purpose of Chapter 1 in the story? | The author sets a scene that is boring and uncreative.
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| What is the author's purpose in describing Bitzer as "so light eyed and light haired that the self-same rays appeared to draw out of him the little color he ever possessed"? | to paint Bitzer as a boring, colorless person
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| Bitzer recites random irrelevant facts about horses to show that... | students are being taught irrelevant material.
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| What is Dickens's opinion of teachers who can answer "volumes of head-breaking questions"? | They are not good teachers.
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| What does Dickens think happens to students who are exposed to only factual learnings? | They lose their creativity and individuality.
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| According to "On Making an Agreeable Marriage," above all other considerations, Jane Austen felt that her niece should marry... | a man she liked.
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| "On Making an Agreeable Marriage" makes it clear that Austen believes her niece is probably... | still in love.
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| "On Making an Agreeable Marriage" might be read as a form of social commentary that... | unconsciously reflects social attitudes.
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| Jane Austen's letter to her niece "On Making an Agreeable Marriage," suggests that she hopes Fanny will... | marry well.
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| Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to... | criticize society's view of women.
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| In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft felt that women's weakness was... | artificial.
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| Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman might be subtitled... | A Plea for Better Education for Women.
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| In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft compares women's minds to... | flowers planted in soil that is too rich.
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| According to Wollstonecraft in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, mistaken notions of female excellence lead women to... | behave like children.
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| Wollstonecraft's purpose in writing A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was to... | persuade readers to accept her point of view.
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| At the time Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft were writing, women's education tended to focus mainly on | ladylike accomplishments.
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