Question

Chapter V, paragraph 4: “I saw another at work to calcine ice into gunpowder; who likewise showed me a treatise he had written concerning the malleability of fire, which he intended to publish. . . .” Chapter V, paragraph 14: “Everyone knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences; whereas, by his contrivance the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labor, may write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study. He then took me to the frame . . . .”
Which setting do the passages above indicate?
a library with many types of books
a classroom in a preschool
a place where books are burned
a place where experiments are performed

Answer 1

The answer would be D a place where experiments are performed

Answer 2

The above passage indicates that the setting is a place where experiments are performed. This statement, "who likewise showed me a treatise he had written concerning the malleability of fire", reveals the place in which the characters are working in. The situation has something to do that is related to experimenting of some sort.