Poetry+Multiple+Choice

=Curiosity = may have killed the cat; more likely the cat was just unlucky, or else curious to see what death was like, having no cause to go on licking paws, or fathering litter on litter of kittens, predictably. Nevertheless, to be curious is dangerous enough. To distrust what is always said, what seems, to ask odd questions, interfere in dreams, leave home, smell rats, have hunches do not endear cats to those doggy circles where well-smelt baskets, suitable wives, good lunches are the order of things, and where prevails much wagging of incurious heads and tails. Face it. Curiosity <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">will not cause us to die- <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">only lack of it will. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Never to want to see <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">the other side of the hill <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">or that improbable country <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">where living is an idyll <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">(although probable hell) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">would kill us all <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Only the curious <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">have, if they live, a tale <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">worth telling at all. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Dogs say cats love too much, are irresponsible, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">are changeable, marry to many wives, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">desert their children, chill all dinner tables <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">with tales of their nine lives. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Well, they are lucky. Let them be <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">nine-lived and contradictory, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">curious enough to change, prepared to pay <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">the cat price, which is to die <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">and die again and again, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">each time with no less pain. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">A cat minority of one <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">is all that can be counted on <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">to tell the truth. And what cats have to tell <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">on each return from hell <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">is this: that dying is what the living do, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">and that dead dogs are those who do not know <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">that dying is what, to live, each has to do

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Alastair Reid

=<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">QUESTIONS = = =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">1.The comedy of the passage drives chiefly from...
2. In line(s) [insert number(s)], the speaker makes use of which of the following … 3.What does the author use dogs to allude to? 4. 5.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> The use of the "curiosity killed the cat" cliché
 * 2) The
 * 1) People who are content in monotonous live who do not take chances
 * 2) A personal dislike