The novelist Robert Herrick was born in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, on April 26, 1868. His oldest American ancestor, a nephew of the
author of Hesperides, had settled at Salem in 1638; he was related to the
Hales, the Mannings, the Hawthornes, and the Peabodys; his immediate forebears
were lawyers, teachers, and clergymen.
At Harvard, he was a contemporary of Santayana. William
Vaughn Moody,Norman Hpgood, and Robert Morss Lovett; he nearly wrecked the
Harvard Monthly when he sullied its chaste pages with the first English
translation of lbsen's ludy from the Sea. His teaching began at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but William Rainey Harper lured him to
the new University of Chicago, where he remained officially for exactly a
generation and where his students in advanced composition found him
terrifyingly frigid in the classroom but sympathetic and understanding in their
personal conferences. During his later years the spot of earth dearest to his
heart was York Viliage, Maine, but after his retirement from teaching he
brought his career to a rather amazing close as government secretary of the
Virgin islands, He died at St. Thomas on December 23, 1938.
Questions
1. To which of the following families was Herrick
related?
(A) The Santayanas
(B) The Hawthornes
(C) The Moodys
(D) The Hapgoods
2. In lines 3-4, the phrase "immediate
forebears" could best be replaced by which of the following?
(A) closest ancestors
(B) wealthiest relatives
(C) cleverest kinsmen
(D) earliest forefathers
3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a
profession of Herrick's relatives?
(A) Farmer
(B) Teacher
(C) Clergyman
(D) Lawyer
4. Herrick moved to the University of Chicago at the
request of
(A) the Hales
(B) the Mannings
(C) Robert Morss Lovett
(D) William Rainey Harper
5. According to the passage, Herrick's
students thought he was
(A) gifted in English translation
(B) unfair in his grading
(C) easy to understand
(D) kind during personal contact
6. In which of the following activities was
Herick involved during the last years of his life?
(A) University teaching
(B) Government work
(C) Translating
(D) Lecturing
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