2. _How many kinds of Reading are there?_ Two.

3. _What are they?_ Silent and Audible.

4. _What is Silent Reading?_ The perusal of Language without utterance.

5. _What is Audible Reading?_ The utterance of thought and feeling, as seen expressed in written Language.

6. _What is Elocution?_ The science and art of the delivery of composition.

7. _How many kinds of Delivery are there?_ Three.

8. _What are they?_ Speaking, Declamation, and Oratory.

9. _What is Speaking?_ The utterance of thought and feeling without reference to the written page.

10. _What is Declamation?_ The delivery of another's composition.

11. _What is Oratory?_ The delivery of one's own composition.

12. _How many kinds of Oratory are there?_ Two.

13. _What are they?_ Prepared and Extempore.

14. _What is Prepared oratory?_ That which has been studied previous to delivery.

15. _What is Extempore oratory?_ That which is accomplished simultaneously with the delivery.

16. _What is Vocal Culture?_ The training of the organs of speech for effective delivery.

17. _What should be the primary object in Audible reading?_ To convey to the hearer the ideas and sentiments of the writer.

18. _In order to accomplish this, what should the Reader do?_ Endeavor to make the feelings and sentiments of the writer his own.

19. _What are some of the essential qualities of a good Reader?_ To read slowly, observe the pauses, give proper inflections, read distinctly, and with expression.

20. _What is Enunciation?_ The utterance of words.

21. _Under how many Divisions should the subject of reading be treated?_ Six.

22. _What are they?_ Articulation, Inflection, Accent, Emphasis, the Voice, and Gesture.

23. _What is Articulation?_ Distinct utterance of the elementary sounds, and of the combinations.

24. _Name four common faults in Articulation._ Omitting an unaccented vocal, dropping the final sound, sounding incorrectly an unaccented vowel, and omitting syllables.

25. _What is Inflection?_ Sliding of the voice upward or downward.

26. _How many kinds of Inflection are there?_ Two.

27. _What are they?_ Rising and falling.

28. _What is the Rising inflection?_ An upward slide of the voice.

29. _What is the Falling inflection?_ A downward slide of the voice.

30. _Are the rising and falling inflections both ever given to the same sound?_ They are.

31. _How is such inflection marked?_ By the Circ.u.mflex.

32. _How many kinds of Circ.u.mflex?_ Two.

33. _What are they?_ Rising and falling.

34. _What is the Rising Circ.u.mflex?_ The sliding of the voice downward and then upward on the same sound.

35. _What is the Falling Circ.u.mflex?_ The sliding of the voice upward and then downward on the same sound.

36. _What is a Monotone?_ Reading without sliding the voice either upward or downward.

37. _Give Rule 1 for falling inflection._ Propositions which make complete sense require the falling inflection.

38. _Does Emphasis ever reverse this rule?_ It does sometimes.

39. _Give Rule 2._ Emphasis generally requires the falling inflection.

40. _Where the sense is dependent, what inflection is generally used?_ The rising.

41. _Does Emphasis ever affect this rule?_ Relative emphasis sometimes reverses it.

42. _What kind of inflection should be used at the end of an interrogative sentence?_ Falling, if it cannot be answered by yes or no.

43. _Negative sentences require what kind of inflection?_ Rising.

44. _Does Emphasis ever affect this rule?_ It does; often reversing it.

45. _Imperative sentences have what inflection?_ Usually the falling.

46. _What kind of words require opposite inflection?_ Words or members expressing ant.i.thesis or contrast.

47. _What is a Series?_ A number of particulars following one another in the same construction.

48. _How many kinds of Series?_ Two.

49. _What are they?_ Commencing and Concluding.

50. _What is a Commencing Series?_ One that commences a sentence.

51. _What is a Concluding Series?_ One that concludes a sentence.