Question

review the details below.

• during his 1842 lecture tour in the u.s., charles dickens spoke out against slavery.
• charles dickens wrote frequently about issues such as poverty and the pitfalls of industrialization.
• charles dickenss novel oliver twist exposed the cruel treatment that many orphans faced in victorian england.

choose the best topic sentence to introduce a paragraph containing these details.
novelist charles dickens was upset by the poverty and
hypocrisy he saw in victorian england.
a popular novelist, charles dickens used his position to
address the social injustices of his time.
charles dickens gave all classes of british society access to
his work by publishing a few of his novels in monthly
magazine installments.

Explanation:

To determine the best topic sentence, we analyze each option:

• The first option focuses on his feelings about poverty and hypocrisy in Victorian England, but the details include his U.S. lecture against slavery and his novel about orphans, not just Victorian England's poverty/hypocrisy.
• The second option states he used his position to address social injustices of his time. The details show him speaking against slavery (a social injustice), writing about poverty/industrialization (social injustices), and exposing cruel treatment of orphans (a social injustice), so this covers all details.
• The third option is about how he published his work, which is unrelated to the details about addressing social issues.

Answer:

B. A popular novelist, Charles Dickens used his position to address the social injustices of his time.