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1. ______ is the father of wisdom.
A Diligence
B Experience
C Intelligence
D Necessity
2. "It is a wise child that knows its own father" means ______.
A A man who is not the father is potentially dangerous to a child.
B It is harder for a baby to recognize its father than its mother.
C It is good for children to get to know their fathers.
D One can never have certain proof that a man is one's father.
3. "The child is father of the man" means ______.
A A person's personality forms during childhood and does not really change.
B In legends, a hero is reborn many times.
C A man became a father at a young age.
D The son acts more maturely than his father does.
4. "Old enough to be someone's father" means ______.
A A person is well matched emotionally with another person.
B A person ought to act more maturely.
C A person is as old as someone's parents (too old for a relationship).
D A person is old enough to have children.
5. Perceive affection makes a ______ of a man too much the father (Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humor, 1598).
A fool
B friend
C fatality
D foible
6. An angry father is most cruel toward ______ (Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings, 1st Century B.C.).
A others
B his children
C himself
D women
7. Father is a ______ provided by nature (French Proverb).
A cushion
B banker
C pillar
D technician
8. A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children’s affection than the need they have of his ______, if that can be called affection (Montaigne, "Of the affections of fathers to their children", 1580-1588).
A assurance
B aspirations
C anguish
D assistance
9. This is what a father should be about: helping his son to form the habit of doing right on his own ______, rather than because he is afraid of some serious consequence (Terence, The Brothers, 160 B.C.).
A initiative
B instigation
C effort
D ability
10. Any father whose son raises his hand ______ him is guilty: of having produced a son who raised his hand ______ him (Charles Paguy, Les Cahiers de la quinsaine, Dec.2 1906).
A to, to
B against, against
C towards, towards
D over, over
11. He that would the ______ win, must with the mother first begin.
A battle
B argument
C lottery
D daughter
12. "Tied to one's mother's apron strings" means ______.
A A person likes cooking.
B A person has a fetish for his or her mother's clothing.
C A person is dependent on his or her mother.
D A person has very strict ideas about what is proper behavior.
13. "Every mother's son (of someone)" means ______.
A Absolutely everyone with no exception
B Anyone who is underage
C All who are immature
D Anyone who is living at home
14. "Old enough to be someone's mother" means ______.
A A person is as old as someone's parents (too old for a relationship).
B A person is old enough to have children.
C A person is well matched emotionally with another person.
D A person ought to act more mature.
15. Every beetle is a gazelle in the ______ of its mother. (Moorish Proverb)
A mind
B view
C eyes
D heart
16. A ______ son is the heaviness of its mother. (Bible, Proverbs)
A foolish
B friendly
C frank
D fiendish
17. The ideal mother, like the ideal ______ is fiction.(Milton B. Sapirstein, Paradoxes of Everyday Life, 1955)
A house
B job
C marriage
D vacation
18. A mother is glad to get the loveliest child ______. (Emerson)
A dressed
B ready
C home
D asleep
19. No woman can call herself ______ unless she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. (Margaret Sanger, Parade, Dec.1, 1963)
A happy
B open
C free
D modern
20. Who takes the child by the ______ takes the mother by the heart. (Danish Proverb)
A storm
B hand
C shirttails
D arm
Exercise 2.
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