READING TEXT12

1. 1. The main idea of this passage is that...

• Harvard is one of the world's most prestigious universities

• what is today a great university started out small

• 1. John Harvard was key to the development of a great university

• 1. Harvard University developed under the auspices of the General Court of Massachusetts

2. The passage indicates that Harvard is...

• one of the oldest universities in the world

• the oldest university in the world

• one of the oldest universities in America

• the oldest university in America

3. It can be inferred from the passage that the Puritans who traveled to the Massachusetts

colony were..

• rather well-educated

• rather rich

• rather supportive of the English government

• rather undemocratic

4. Which of the following is NOT mentioned about John Harvard?

• 1. What he died of

• 1. Where he came from

• 1. Where he was buried

• 1. How much he bequeathed to Harvard

5. The passage implies that...

• 1. Henry Dunster was an ineffective president

• 1. someone else really served as president of Harvard before Henry Dunster

• 1. Henry Dunster spent much of his time as president managing the Harvard faculty

• 1. the position of president of Harvard was not merely an administrative position in the early years