Question

select the correct answer.
which themes of charles dickenss oliver twist does this excerpt from the novel touch on?

the houses on either side were high and large, but very old, and tenanted by people of the poorest class: as their neglected appearance would have sufficiently denoted, without the concurrent testimony afforded by the squalid looks of the few men and women who, with folded arms and bodies half doubled, occasionally skulked along. . . . some houses which had become insecure from age and decay, were prevented from falling into the street, by huge beams of wood reared against the walls, and firmly planted in the road; but even these crazy dens seemed to have been selected as the nightly haunts of some houseless wretches, for many of the rough boards which supplied the place of door and window, were wrenched from their positions, to afford an aperture wide enough for the passage of a human body. the kennel was stagnant and filthy. the very rats, which here and there lay putrefying in its rottenness, were hideous with famine.

a. extreme poverty
b. good vs. evil
c. child labor
d. resistance

Explanation:

The excerpt describes the living conditions of the poorest class: old, neglected houses, squalid - looking people, insecure and decayed houses used as haunts for houseless wretches, a stagnant and filthy kennel with starving rats. These details all point to extreme poverty. Option B (good vs. evil) is not shown as there's no contrast between good and evil elements here. Option C (child labor) is not mentioned. Option D (resistance) has no related content in the excerpt.

Answer:

A. extreme poverty