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Read the following passages and answer the questions that follow: In his novel Hard Times, Charles Dickens (1812-70), perhaps the most severe contemporary critic of the horrors of industrialisation for the poor, wrote a fictional account of an industrial town he aptly called Coketown. 'It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it, but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonouslyup and down, like the head of an elephant in a stare of melancholy madness. ' Q. Highlight any four social problems mentioned here.

Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :(a) Constant flow a <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/rural-22819" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about RURAL">RURAL</a> <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/migration-1096304" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MIGRATION">MIGRATION</a> to cities in search of work, increased the population in the cities. <br/> (b) Increasing slums in industrial towns. <br/> (c ) Constant <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/increase-1040383" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about INCREASE">INCREASE</a> in thefts, crimes, street bowls, etc. <br/> (d) <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/break-903849" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BREAK">BREAK</a> down in family ties.</body></html>


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