Question Statement:
"Why do they pull down and do away with crooked streets, I wonder, which are my
delight, and hurt no man living? Every day the wealthier nations are pulling down
one or another in their capitals and their great towns: they do not know why they do
it; neither do I. It ought to be enough, surely, to drive the great broad ways which
commerce needs and which are the life -channels of a modern city, without
destroying all history and all the humanity in between: the islands of the past."
(From Hilaire Belloc's "The Crooked Streets")
Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the
following statements is true?
Options:
- (A) The author of the passage takes delight in wondering.
- (B) The wealthier nations are pulling down the crooked streets in their capitals.
- (C) In the past, crooked streets were only built on islands.
- (D) Great broad ways are needed to protect commerce and history.