Haggerty: The Ahility to Read 



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1. What other person possesses the same tastes as Xapoleon? 



2. Who is said to have arrived in a commanding position? 



3. What must the common man do with tastes such as Xapoleon indulged? 



4. Who is said to have " 'intelhgible merits"? 



5. What does the "man in the street" find in Xapoleon? 



Set VII OR 70 



Read this and then write the answers to questions 1. 2. and 3. All ques- 

 tions must be answered from the paragraph. Read the paragraph as often 

 as you need to. 



Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use 

 for delight is in privateness, and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for 

 ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business; for, expert men can 

 execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, 

 and the plots and marshaling of affairs, come best f rom those that are learned. 



To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use them too much for orna- 

 ment, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a 

 scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities 

 are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do 

 give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. 



1. In how many ways may "studies" be misused? 



2. In what things are learned men said to be the best? 



3. In what way do studies ser^'e for ornament? 



Read this and then write the answers to questions 4 and 5. All ques- 

 tions must be answered from the paragraph. Read the paragraph as often 

 as you need to. 



However certain it may seem to be that men work only because they must, 

 and would avoid labor except for the food, clothing, and luxuries that are its 

 rewards, the facts may well be the contrary. It can hardly be the case that men 

 dislike work because they wish to be utterly idle. For mere rest, mere inactivity, 

 is not commonly enjoyed. To have nothing to do is not what men seek. Were 

 that so, we should envy the prisoner shut up in his cell. If men had to choose 

 between a life spent at eight hours of work daily in a factory and a life of eight 

 hours of sitting on a throne without moving hand or foot, many of them would, 

 after trying both, choose the former. Activity of body or mind, at which a man 

 can succeed, is, in and of itself, rather enjoyed than disliked. 



4. In what respect is a prisoner in his cell like a man svith a million 

 doUars? 



5. What is stated in the paragraph to be really liked and not objected to? 



SCALE BETA 2 

 Set I OR 10 



Read this and then write the answers. Read it again as often as yoti 

 need to. 



Robert and Helen are playing the game of Little Red Riding Hood. Robert 

 has on Papa's fur coat. He plays he is the wolf. Grace has on a white cap. 



