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

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The author quotes Coleridge in order to______.

A．refute the literary opinions of certain religious and political groups
B．make a case for the inferiority of novels to poetry
C．indicate how widespread was the attack on novels in the early 19^th century
D．illustrate the early 19th century belief that fiction was especially appealing to young readers

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The author mentions that English literature was not part of any academic curriculum in the early 19th 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．suggest the superiority of an informal and unsystematized approach to the study of literature
D．give one reason why Jane Austin' s novels received little critical attention in the early 19^th century