Question

In this excerpt from Hard Times by Charles Dickens, which lines 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 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 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 workful. If the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there - as the members of eighteen religious persuasions had done - they made it a pious warehouse of red brick, with sometimes (but this is only in highly ornamental examples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it. The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs.

Answer choices: (Note, more than one sentence can be selected)
A. it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.
B. serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled.
C. black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye.
D. If the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there - as the members of eighteen religious persuasions had done - they made it a pious warehouse of red brick, with sometimes (but this is only in highly ornamental examples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it.
E. The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs.

Answer 1

"it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage."

"serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled."

"black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye"

Answer 2

From the excerpt from Hard Times by Charles Dickens, the lines that include the images of the horrors of industrialization are letters A, B and C.

A. it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.
It shows that the area is painted red and black , the original color was red and it symbolizes the fertility and naturalness of the original civilization until industrialization came in. The black ones represent the massive dirt and grime that the industries emitted.

B. serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled.
Serpents of smoke means the trail of black smoke emitted from the factories of the industries. The production of these gases indicates that the industries are still producing something regardless of the effect it has on the environment and on the people.

C. black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye.
The black canal represents the waste that the industry is producing and the smell that is stagnant for years as no one will try to clean the polluted water.