Read the passage from Charles Dickens's Hard Times. Which statement best sums up the meaning of this
passage?
It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of
which interminable [unending) 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.
The Industrial Age brought wealth to more people
than at any other time in history.
More people were able to enjoy leisure time, thanks
to the advances of the Industrial Age.
O The Industrial Age brought with it problems such as
pollution and monotonous labor.
More people were able to find rewarding work,
thanks to the growth of industry.

Which 1962 act was designed to create more technical, trade, and scientific learning? a. manpower development and training act b. federal economic assistance act c. civil rights act d. opec act which statement gives the best example of a reason many oklahomans grew to disapprove of the vietnam war? a. oklahomans were angered that congress never officially declared war on vietnam, even though it lasted for years. b. oklahomans were upset that the war targeted a communist country in asia. c. oklahomans feared that after the war, the us would prepare to invade vietnam’s neighbor china. d. oklahomans believed that communism would inevitably spread throughout southeast asia. which of the following best explains the changes in higher education in oklahoma in the 60s and 70s? a. oklahomans ignored higher education and focused only on elementary school. b. oklahomans established vocational and occupational schools that later became community colleges. c. oklahomans decreased funding to vocational-tech schools and instead funded the university of oklahoma. d. oklahomans funded only four-year colleges, focusing only on supporting major universities. what was the most important reason why opec enforced a 1973 oil embargo, sending the us into a desperate energy crisis? a. opec feared that the us oil market threatened opec’s power to control oil prices. b. the us sided with israel against arab states, and opec instituted an embargo against those supporting israel. c. the us demanded that opec member-nations repay loans they had borrowed from the us. d. opec nations made a pact with the soviet union, which asked them to create the embargo. which city has a large asian american community, partly to the arrival of refugees after the vietnam war? a. tulsa b. lawton c. oklahoma city d. edmond the 1970s energy crises revealed all of the following facts about the american economy except a. america consumed more oil than it could sustainably produce b. opec had the power to regulate a valuable natural resource c. americans relied very heavily on foreign oil d. american oil production was enough to meet all of the country’s needs most community colleges that were established throughout oklahoma in the 1960s and 1970s offered students instruction to develop skills. a. vocational b. philosophical c. legal d. political