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Unit 8 · Reading Comprehension English · 2020 cycle (Shift 2)

Passage IV (Dickens, Hard Times, 1854, Book I, ch. 2)

He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into all the vessels ranged before him, one after another, to see what they contained. Say, good M'Choakumchild. When from thy boiling store, thou shalt fill each jar brim full by-and-by, dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the robber Fancy lurking within—or sometimes only maim him and distort him!

'Fancy' is opposed to which two of the following?

  1. A. Emotion
  2. B. Reason
  3. C. Fact
  4. D. Imagination

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Correct answer: A. B and C only

Explanation

Gradgrind's system sets Fact and Reason against Fancy (imagination and feeling).

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