READING 1 / QUICK QUIZ

A Charter for the Imagined Town

3 questions. Choose the meaning or usage that best fits each situation. Try answering before reopening the passage.

1What does inalienable claim about the orchard in the fictional charter?A. It cannot be taken from community ownership or transferred to a private holder.B. It must be sold whenever a purchaser offers more money.C. It can be reassigned whenever one delegate requests it.D. Its ownership changes automatically with the most popular crop.

2The political tradition described through individual freedom, civil liberties, and openness to reform is _____.A. opposition to all possible reformB. complete rejection of civil libertiesC. liberalismD. rule by inherited status alone

3Which proposal reflects the delegate's ultraconservative approach?A. Treating inherited status as irrelevant when assigning every public office.B. Choosing a new arrangement without considering tradition at all.C. Welcoming the abolition of all traditional institutions solely because they are old.D. Restoring hereditary offices and ancestral social ranks because inherited custom should govern public life.

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