Read the excerpt from Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, and answer the question. “Mrs. Gradgrind, weakly smiling, and giving no other sign of vitality, looked (as she always did) like an
indifferently executed transparency of a small female figure, without enough light behind it.”

What can you infer about Mrs. Gradgrind from this excerpt?

A. Mrs. Gradgrind is a hard worker.
B. Mrs. Gradgrind is not very animated.
C. Mrs. Gradgrind works in the dark.
D. Mrs. Gradgrind is an intelligent woman.