The Following Is an Excerpt from the Testimony of Ann

question 11

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The following is an excerpt from the testimony of Ann Eggley, an eighteen-year-old mine worker (Evaluating the Evidence 20.2) : "I'm sure I don't know how to spell my name. We go at four in the morning, and sometimes at half-past four. . . . We get out after four, sometimes at five, in the evening. We work the whole time except an hour for dinner, and sometimes we haven't time to eat. I hurry [move coal wagons underground] by myself, and have done so for long. I know the corves [small coal wagons] are very heavy, they are the biggest corves anywhere about. The work is far too hard for me; the sweat runs off me all over sometimes. I am very tired at night. Sometimes when we get home at night we have not power to wash us, and then we go to bed. Sometimes we fall asleep in the chair. Father said last night it was both a shame and a disgrace for girls to work as we do, but there was naught else for us to do."
Which of the following is implied by Eggley's testimony?

• A)She was subject to sexual harassment in the mines.
• B)Her father did not live up to his responsibility for his children.
• C)Everyone in her family was required to work in order to get by.
• D)She was not paid for her work.

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