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Post Test: The Victorian Era
Select the correct text in the passage.
In this excerpt from Hard Times by Charles Dickens, which three sections include images of the horrors of industrialization
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 ton 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 forever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with meang oye,
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 monotonously up and down like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.
- You saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely worful if the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there - as the members
of eighteen religious persuasions had done- they made it a plous warehouse of red brick with sometimes but this is only in highly omamental
examples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it The solitary exception was the New Church a stuccoed edifice with a souare steeple over the
door terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs.

Read the passage. excerpt from "why equal pay is worth fighting for" by senator elizabeth warren, april 17, 2014 i honestly can't believe that we're still arguing over equal pay in 2014. when i started teaching elementary school after college, the public school district didn't hide the fact that it had two pay scales: one for men and one for women. women have made incredible strides since then. but 40 years later, we're still debating equal pay for equal work. women today still earn only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, and they're taking a hit in nearly every occupation. bloomberg analyzed census data and found that median earnings for women were lower than those for men in 264 of 265 major occupation categories. in 99.6 percent of occupations, men get paid more than women. that's not an accident; that's discrimination. the effects of this discrimination are real, and they are long lasting. today, more young women go to college than men, but unequal pay makes it harder for them to pay back student loans. pay inequality also means a tougher retirement for women. . for middle-class families today, it usually takes two incomes to get by, and many families depend as much on mom's salary as they do on dad's, if not more. women are the main breadwinners, or joint breadwinners, in two-thirds of the families across the country, and pay discrimination makes it that much harder for these families to stay afloat. women are ready to fight back against pay discrimination, but it's not easy. today, a woman can get fired for asking the guy across the hall how much money he makes. here in the senate, sen. barbara mikulski (d-md.) introduced the paycheck fairness act to give women the tools to combat wage discrimination. it would ensure that salary differences have something to do with the actual job that they are doing, and not just because they are women. senator warren states that the effects of pay discrimination are long-lasting. is this a valid argument supported by accurate evidence? no; warren weakens her point by claiming that the paycheck fairness act would "give women the tools to combat wage discrimination." yes; warren supports her point by noting, "for middle-class families today, it usually takes two incomes to get by." yes; warren supports her point by noting, "pay inequality also means a tougher retirement for women." no; warren weakens her point by noting, "today, a woman can get fired for asking the guy across the hall how much money he makes."