GREAT BOOK
The test of a great book is whether we want to read it only once or more than once. Any really great book we want to read the second time even more than we wanted to read it the first time and every additional time that we read it, we find new meanings and new beauties in it. A book that a person of education and good taste does not care to read more than once is very probably not worth much. But we cannot consider the judgement of a single individual infallible. The opinion that makes a book great must be the opinion of many. For even the greatest critics are apt to have certain dullness, certain in appreciation. A man must be many-sided to utter trustworthy estimate of many books. We may doubt the judgement of a single critic at times. But there is no doubt possible in regard to the judgement of generations.
Answer the following questions briefly:
1. What is the test of a great book?
2. When is doubt not possible about the value of a book?
3. What kind of man can utter a trustworthy estimate of many books?
4. When can we doubt a judgement?
5. When is no doubt possible about a judgement?
6.Which word in the passage means ‘never wrong’?
Answers
1. We want to read it more than once and every additional reading gives us greater knowledge and pleasure.
2.When it has passed the judgement of generations.
3.A man of many-sided personality.
4.When it is made by a single critic.
5.When it is made over generations
6.Infallible.
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