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Read the passage.

When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue,
Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep.
So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.
In “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake, which of the following statements does not support Blake’s message about the life of a chimney sweep?


Some chimney sweepers were quite content.

Children were forced to work as chimney sweeps.

Chimney sweeping was dangerous.

Chimney sweepers were not well paid.

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The answer would be the first choice, some chimney sweepers were quite content.
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I believe the answer is the first one

Some chimney sweepers were quite content does not support Blake's message about the life of a chimney sweep
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