Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

William James, the great psychologist , said that most men are "old fogies at twenty-five". He was right. Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs. They have closed their minds to all new ideas; they have stopped to grow. The minute a man stops to grow -no matter what his years -that minute he begins to be old. On the other hand, the really great man never grows old. Goethe passed away at eighty-three, and finished his only a few years earlier; Gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy. Laplace, the astronomer, was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. He died crying, "What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense (extremely large)." And there you have the real answer to the question, "When is a man old?" Laplace at seventy-eight died young. He was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn. As long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, as long as he can look back on every year and say, "I grew", he is still young. The minute he ceases (stops) to grow, the minute he says to himself, "I know all that I need to know," -that day youth stops. He may be twenty-five or seventy-five; it makes no difference. On that day he begins to be old.

1. Who is William James?
2. And what did he say about most men?
3. Is he right?
4. How so?
5. What about those who don't?
6. What did Gladstone do?
7. At what age?
8. How did Laplace feel when he died?
9. Why?
10. Did he believe that we knew anything?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. William James is a great psychologist.
2. He said that most men are "old fogies at twenty-five".
3. Yes, he was right.
4. At twenty-five, most men are satisfied with their jobs and close their minds to new ideas.
5. They never grow old.
6. Took up a new language.
7. Seventy.
8. Unsatisfied.
9. He was still sure that he had a lot to learn.
10. No.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXIV.

Next day, sure enough, the cablegram didn't come. This was an immense disaster; for Tracy couldn't go into the presence without that ticket, although it wasn't going to possess any value as evidence. But if the failure of the cablegram on that first day may be called an immense disaster, where is the dictionary that can turn out a phrase sizeable enough to describe the tenth day's failure? Of course every day that the cablegram didn't come made Tracy all of twenty-four hours' more ashamed of himself than he was the day before, and made Sally fully twenty-four hours more certain than ever that he not only hadn't any father anywhere, but hadn't even a confederate--and so it followed that he was a double-dyed humbug and couldn't be otherwise.

These were hard days for Barrow and the art firm. All these had their hands full, trying to comfort Tracy. Barrow's task was particularly hard, because he was made a confidant in full, and therefore had to humor Tracy's delusion that he had a father, and that the father was an earl, and that he was going to send a cablegram. Barrow early gave up the idea of trying to convince Tracy that he hadn't any father, because this had such a bad effect on the patient, and worked up his temper to such an alarming degree. He had tried, as an experiment, letting Tracy think he had a father; the result was so good that he went further, with proper caution, and tried letting him think his father was an earl; this wrought so well, that he grew bold, and tried letting him think he had two fathers, if he wanted to, but he didn't want to, so Barrow withdrew one of them and substituted letting him think he was going to get a cablegram--which Barrow judged he wouldn't, and was right; but Barrow worked the cablegram daily for all it was worth, and it was the one thing that kept Tracy alive; that was Barrow's opinion.

1. What has not arrived?
2. Who is this bad news for?
3. Was it one day late?
4. Did it ever come?
5. What is the cablegram?
6. How does Tracy feel about himself?
7. What family member is Tracy missing?
8. Who is convinced of that?
9. What does she call him?
10. Who is trying to make him feel better?
11. Does Tracy think he has a father?
12. Who does he think his father is?
13. What does he think his father is going to do?
14. What makes Tracy mad?
15. How many fathers did he try to tell him he had?
16. How'd that go?
17. What did he replace the second father with?
18. What does Barrow think it does for Tracy?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. the cablegram
2. Tracy
3. no
4. no
5. a ticket
6. ashamed
7. a father
8. Sally
9. a double-dyed humbug
10. Barrow and the art firm
11. yes
12. an earl
13. send a cablegram.
14. telling Tracy he had no father
15. two
16. he didn't believe it
17. a cablegram
18. keeps him alive

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER ELEVEN.

A CONSULTATION, A FEAST, AND A PLOT.

There was--probably still is--a coffee-tavern in Gorleston where, in a cleanly, cheerful room, a retired fisherman and his wife, of temperance principles, supplied people with those hot liquids which are said to cheer without inebriating.

Here, by appointment, two friends met to discuss matters of grave importance. One was Bob Lumsden, the other his friend and admirer Pat Stiver. Having asked for and obtained two large cups of coffee and two slices of buttered bread for some ridiculously small sum of money, they retired to the most distant corner of the room, and, turning their backs on the counter, began their discussion in low tones.

Being early in the day, the room had no occupants but themselves and the fisherman's wife, who busied herself in cleaning and arranging plates, cups, and saucers, etcetera, for expected visitors.

"Pat," said Bob, sipping his coffee with an appreciative air, "I've turned a total abstainer."

"W'ich means?" inquired Pat.

"That I don't drink nothin' at all," replied Bob.

"But you're a-drinkin' now!" said Pat.

"You know what I mean, you small willain; I drink nothin' with spirits in it."

"Well, I don't see what you gains by that, Bob, for I heerd Fred Martin say you was nat'rally 'full o' spirit,' so abstainin' 'll make no difference."

"Pat," said Bob sternly, "if you don't clap a stopper on your tongue, I'll wollop you."

Pat became grave at once. "Well, d'ee know, Bob," he said, with an earnest look, "I do b'lieve you are right. You've always seemed to me as if you had a sort o' dissipated look, an' would go to the bad right off if you gave way to drink. Yes, you're right, an' to prove my regard for you I'll become a total abstainer too--but, nevertheless, I _can't_ leave off drinkin'."

1. Who met?
2. Why?
3. Where did they meet
4. In what city?
5. In what kind of room
6. Was this an appointment?
7. What was one of their names?
8. The other?
9. What were they drinking?
10. What were they eating?
11. Was Bob an abstainer
12. What does that mean
13. Drink what?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. two friends
2. to discuss matters of grave importance
3. a coffee-tavern
4. Gorleston
5. cheerful room
6. yes
7. Bob Lumsden
8. Pat Stiver
9. coffee
10. slices of buttered bread
11. yes
12. That he doesn't drink
13. drink nothin' with spirits in it