Question

Select the suitable option for the given statements, based on your understanding of the story.

(1) The author’s description of Coketown brings out the ugly face of industries that operated there.

(2) Pescud got off at Coketown as it had good business prospects for a plate-glass salesman.

विकल्प

• (1) is false but (2) is true.

• (1) is true but (2) is false.

• (1) is the cause for (2)

• (2) is a fact but unrelated to (1)

Answer 1

(1) is true but (2) is false.

Explanation:

(1) True: The author describes Coketown as an unattractive industrial town, showing the unpleasant side of industrialisation.

(2) False: Pescud did not get off at Coketown because of its business prospects. He got off because he wanted to follow Jessie’s train and find out where she lived.