Assignment: Quiz 3-READING

HUM16-T Q1 2014-2015
2014-09-09T02:56:42Z

Due: Sep 10, 2014 by 7am

Directions: This test consists of selections from literary works and questions on their content, form, and style. After reading each passage or poem, choose the best answer to each question and blacken the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

Other faces there were, too, of men who (if

the brevity of their remembrance, after death,

can be augured from their little value in life)

should have been represented in snow rather

(5) than marble. Posteriorly, will be puzzled what

to do with busts like these, the concretions and

petrifactions of a vain self-estimate; but will

find, no doubt, that they serve to build into

stone walls, or burn into quicklime, as well as

if the marble had never been blocked into the

guise of human heads.

But it is an awful thing, indeed, this endless

Endurance, this almost indestructibility, of a

marble bust! Whether in our own case, or that

of other men, it bids as sadly measure the little,

little time during which our lineament are likely

to be of interest to any human being. It is

especially

singular that Americans should care about

perpetuating themselves in this mode.

(20) The brief duration of our families, as a hereditary

household, renders it next to a certainty

that the great grandchildren will not know their

father’s grandfather, and that half a century

hence, at furthest, the hammer of the auctioneer

will thump its knockdown blow against his

blockhead, sold at so much for the proud of

stone! And it ought to make us shiver, the idea

of leaving our features to be a dusty-white ghost

among strangers of another generation, who will

(30) take our nose between their thumb and fingers

(as we have seen men do by Caesar’s), and in

fallibly break it off if they can do so without

detection!

Directions: This test consists of selections from literary works and questions on their content, form, and style. After reading each passage or poem, choose the best answer to each question and blacken the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

Other faces there were, too, of men who (if

the brevity of their remembrance, after death,

can be augured from their little value in life)

should have been represented in snow rather

(5) than marble. Posteriorly, will be puzzled what

to do with busts like these, the concretions and

petrifactions of a vain self-estimate; but will

find, no doubt, that they serve to build into

stone walls, or burn into quicklime, as well as

if the marble had never been blocked into the

guise of human heads.

But it is an awful thing, indeed, this endless

Endurance, this almost indestructibility, of a

marble bust! Whether in our own case, or that

of other men, it bids as sadly measure the little,

little time during which our lineament are likely

to be of interest to any human being. It is

especially

singular that Americans should care about

perpetuating themselves in this mode.

(20) The brief duration of our families, as a hereditary

household, renders it next to a certainty

that the great grandchildren will not know their

father’s grandfather, and that half a century

hence, at furthest, the hammer of the auctioneer

will thump its knockdown blow against his

blockhead, sold at so much for the proud of

stone! And it ought to make us shiver, the idea

of leaving our features to be a dusty-white ghost

among strangers of another generation, who will

(30) take our nose between their thumb and fingers

(as we have seen men do by Caesar’s), and in

fallibly break it off if they can do so without

detection!