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It can be inferred from the passage that Whately found Dickens' characters to be

A．especially interesting to young readers
B．ordinary persons in recognizably human situations
C．less liable than Jane Austin ' s characters to have a realistic mixture of moral qualities
D．more often villainous and weak than virtuous and good

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The author mentions that English hterature was not part of any academic curriculum in the early nineteenth century in order to ______.

A．emphasize the need for Jane Austin to create ordinary, everyday characters in her novels
B．give support to those religious and political groups that had attacked fiction
C．give one reason why Jane Austin' s novels received little critical attention in the early nineteenth century
D．suggest the superiority of an informal and unsystematized approach to the study of literature

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According to the passage, the lack of critical attention paid to Jane Austin can be explained by all of the following nineteenth-century attitudes toward the novel EXCEPT ______.

A．the assurance felt by many people that novels weakened the mind
B．the certainty shared by many political commentators that the range of novels was too narrow
C．the lack of interest shown by some critics in novels that were published anonymously
D．the fear exhibited by some critics in novels that had the power to portray immoral characters attractively