1. What is your opinion on this topic?
2. Does this selection appeal to you? Did you enjoy reading it? Why or why not?
3. What main points are raised by the writer?
4. What is the selection's overall message? Does it appeal to the emotions? intellect? both?
5. What does Bacon mean by "studies serve for delight"?
6. What does he mean by "studies serve for ornament"?
7. What does he mean by "studies serve for ability"?
8. Why do you think "reading maketh a full man"?
9. Why do you think "conference maketh a ready man"?
10. Why do you think "reading maketh an exact man"?
11. As a student, what would you like to be: A full man, a ready man, or an exact man? Explain your answer.
12. What would happen if you read little, confer little, and write little? Why?​​