Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The story in Vanity Fair is set in the period of the Napoleonic wars
B) Like so many classic works of literature,it mixes ambition, greed, duplicity, coarseness, riches, and poverty into one of literature’s great satirical pictures, which the author intended to be applied to early/mid-Victorian England
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Then came the struggle and parting below
B) Words refuse to tell it
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) This almost caused Jemima to faint with terror
B) «Well, I never» – said she –»what an audacious». - Emotion prevented her from completing either sentence
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) This talk with sister completed, Miss Pinkerton proceeded to write her own name, and Miss Sedley’s, in the fly-leaf of a Johnson’s Dictionary – the interesting work which she invariably presented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall
B) On the cover was inserted a copy of «Lines addressed to a young lady on quitting Miss Pinkerton’s school, at the Mall; by the late revered Doctor OJ Simpson»
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Three days before, little Laura Martin, the orphan, followed Amelia about like a little dog
B) She had to make and receive at least two presents - to make seven solemn promises of writing every week
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Vanity Fair is not good for those wishing to discover Thackeray’s bright wit, attractive humour, and seldom matched comic powers
B) While the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young bodyguards, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Vanity Fair was Thackeray’s first horror story
B) Vanity Fair is commonly considered to be his masterpiece
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) When he was drunk, he used to beat his wife and daughter; and the next morning, with a headache, he would rail at the world for its neglect of his genius, and abuse, with a good deal of cleverness, and sometimes with perfect reason, the fools, his brother painters
B) As it was with the utmost difficulty that he could keep himself, and as he owed money for a mile round Soho, where he lived, he thought to better his circumstances by marrying a young woman of the French nation, who was by profession an opera-girl
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) When Miss Pinkerton had finished the inscription in the first, Jemima, with rather a dubious and timid air, handed her the twenty second
B) «For whom is this, Miss Jemima?» said Miss Pinkerton, with awful coldness
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) when the day of departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act
B) She was glad to go home, and yet most woefully sad at leaving school
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