#1.)Which sentence best summarizes the passage?

Thomas Gradgrind explains how nothing but facts is wanted to educate young children properly.
Mr. Gradgrind, who wants nothing but facts, introduces himself to his classroom and tells a student what to call herself.
Thomas Gradgrind speaks to his classroom, explaining the need for facts and calculations, scales and multiplication tables.
Mr. Gradgrind looks are as harsh as his words: he has a square forehead and a thin, hard-set mou
#2.What central idea does the text present about school in the time and place of this novel?

It is place where students often do not learn facts.
It is a place where all the teachers are misguided.
It can be a miserable place with the wrong teacher.
It can be a place where poor children learn to leave poverty behind.

#3.Which detail best shows Mr. Gradgrind’s attitude toward education?

He sees the students as having the “minds of reasoning animals.”
He sees the students as “little vessels” to pour facts into.
He sees the schoolroom as a place to underscore “every sentence with a line.”
He sees the schoolroom as a place to substitute the words “‘boys and girls’ for ‘sir.’”

#4.Which detail from the passage best shows the setting and the theme?

a plain, bare, monotonous vault
an inflexible, dry, and dictatorial voice
imperial gallons of facts
any parcel of human nature