Dickens’s and Wordsworth’s differing views about the French Revolution can be described, respectively, by which of the following adjectives?

(A) Optimistic, encouraged (B) Understanding, accepting (C) Cynical, enthusiastic (D) Sincere, resignedExplanation: The only possible description of Wordsworth’s reaction is enthusiasm, and thus the other answers (which would make him encouraged [A], accepting [B], or resigned [D]) are unacceptable. C also accounts for Dickens’s somewhat cynical take, as when he says, “things in general were settled forever.”