501 Critical Reading Questions

Critical Reading Questions

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262.
In lines 32–37, the author
a. contradicts the rule established in the previous paragraph.
b. clarifies the rule established in the previous paragraph.
c. shows an example of the rule established in the previous 
paragraph.
d. justifies the rule established in the previous paragraph.
e. provides a new rule.
263.
According to the author, two defining characteristics of a short 
story are
a. complexity and probability.
b. moral dilemmas and sudden clashes.
c. retrospection and justification.
d. metaphor and congruity.
e. limited time and point of view.
264.
In line 46, this reflecting mind refers to
a. the author.
b. the narrator.
c. the reader.
d. a story’s translator.
e. a story’s editor.
Questions 265–273 are based on the following passage.
This excerpt is from the final scene of the play George Bernard Shaw’s 1916
play Pygmalion, when Professor Higgins learns just how well he taught Liza.
HIGGINS: If you’re going to be a lady, you’ll have to give up feeling
neglected if the men you know don’t spend half their time snivel-
ing over you and the other half giving you black eyes. If you can’t
stand the coldness of my sort of life, and the strain of it, go back to
the gutter. Work ’til you are more a brute than a human being; and
then cuddle and squabble and drink ’til you fall asleep. Oh, it’s a fine
life, the life of the gutter. It’s real: it’s warm: it’s violent: you can feel
it through the thickest skin: you can taste it and smell it without any
training or any work. Not like Science and Literature and Classi-
cal Music and Philosophy and Art. You find me cold, unfeeling, self-
ish, don’t you? Very well: be off with you to the sort of people you
like. Marry some sentimental hog or other with lots of money, and
a thick pair of lips to kiss you with and a thick pair of boots to kick
you with. If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get
what you can appreciate.
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