Value of Book
Read the following passages and answer the questions given at the end of each:
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 the single critic at times. But there is no doubt possible in regard to the judgement of generations.
Questions :
(a) Oral is the test of a great book?
(b) If hat do we find when we react a good book again?
(c) When is doubt not possible about the value of a book?
(d) Assign a suitable title to this passage.
(e) What kind of man can utter a trustworthy estimate of many books?
Answers :
(a) The test of a great book is whether we want to read it once or more than once.
(b) When we read a great book again, we find new beauties and meanings in it.
(c) When the generations of critics praise a book, there is no doubt regarding its greatness.
(d) The test of a great book.
(e) He should be many-sided.
