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Which sentence in this excerpt from Isaac Asimov's "The Fun They Had" is an example of direct characterization
Margie always hated school, but now she hated it more than ever. The mechanical teacher had been giving her
she had been doing worse and worse until her mother had shaken her head sorrowfully and sent for the Count
He was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dials and wires. He smiled at Margie ar
the teacher apart. Margie had hoped he wouldn't know how to put it together again, but he knew how all right,
was again, large and black and ugly, with a big screen on which all the lessons were shown and the questions w
The part Margie hated most was the slot where she had to put homework and test papers. She always had to w
they made her learn when she was six years old, and the mechanical teacher calculated the mark in no time.
The Inspector had smiled after he was finished and patted Margie's head. He said to her mother, "It's not the li
the geography sector was geared a little too quick. Those things happen sometimes. I've slowed it up to an aver
over-all pattern of her progress is quite satisfactory." And he patted Margie's head again.
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He was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dials and wires.

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Answer:

He was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dials and wires.

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