Assignment: Quiz 1-READING

HUM16-T Q1 2014-2015
2014-09-09T02:56:44Z

Due: Sep 10, 2014 by 7am

III.Reading Questions 1-8: Read the following passage carefully before you choose your answers.

Our eyes can see nothing behind us. A hundred times a day we laugh at ourselves when we laugh at our neighbors and we detest in other the faults which are much more glaring in

(5) ourselves and with marvelous impudence and thoughtlessness we express our

astonishment at them. Only yesterday I had the opportunity to hear a man, an intelligent and well-mannered person, ridiculing with as much humor as aptness,

(10) the fatuity of another who pesters everybody with his pedigrees and his alliances, which

are more than half imaginary for they are most ready to pounce upon this silly subject whose quality is most doubtful and least certain.

(15) And this man, if he had retired within himself, would have seen that he was hardly less extravagant and tedious in publishing and extolling his wife’s family prerogatives. Oh, the meddlesome presumption with which the wife sees herself

(20) armed by the hands of her own husband!

As if she were not mad enough already. You now provoke her to greater madness (Terence)

I do not mean that no man should judge unless

(25) he himself be spotless, for then no man could judge; not even if he were free from the

same kind of blemish. But I do mean that our judgment, when laying blame on another, who is in question, should not save us from self-judgment.

(30) It is a charitable office in one who cannot rid himself of a fault to endeavor nonetheless to rid another of it, in whom it may have taken less deep and stubborn root.

III.Reading Questions 1-8: Read the following passage carefully before you choose your answers.

Our eyes can see nothing behind us. A hundred times a day we laugh at ourselves when we laugh at our neighbors and we detest in other the faults which are much more glaring in

(5) ourselves and with marvelous impudence and thoughtlessness we express our

astonishment at them. Only yesterday I had the opportunity to hear a man, an intelligent and well-mannered person, ridiculing with as much humor as aptness,

(10) the fatuity of another who pesters everybody with his pedigrees and his alliances, which

are more than half imaginary for they are most ready to pounce upon this silly subject whose quality is most doubtful and least certain.

(15) And this man, if he had retired within himself, would have seen that he was hardly less extravagant and tedious in publishing and extolling his wife’s family prerogatives. Oh, the meddlesome presumption with which the wife sees herself

(20) armed by the hands of her own husband!

As if she were not mad enough already. You now provoke her to greater madness (Terence)

I do not mean that no man should judge unless

(25) he himself be spotless, for then no man could judge; not even if he were free from the

same kind of blemish. But I do mean that our judgment, when laying blame on another, who is in question, should not save us from self-judgment.

(30) It is a charitable office in one who cannot rid himself of a fault to endeavor nonetheless to rid another of it, in whom it may have taken less deep and stubborn root.