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Louis Menand, Name that Tone

Louis Menand, Name that Tone

Read Name that Tone and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. What is the Mosquito?

a device that emits an ear-splitting tone audible only to young people

an echo that follows a particularly high-pitched tone

another name for a cell phone

a device that facilitates the downloading of music from the Internet

2. What is “presbycusis”?

the hearing range of a dog

a ringing in the ears

the natural loss of hearing with age

another word for “adolescent”

3. For what reason are young people using the Mosquito tone?

as a ring tone on their cell phones

as a device that prevents them from spying on each other

to form secret societies

to irritate each other

4. What did George Bernard Shaw say about youth?

It is a fiction invented by old men.

It is irrelevant in every important way.

It is wasted on the young.

It should be respected for its energy and cunning.

5. According to the author, mental and physical development

is a matter of attitude.

never stops.

is not fair to the elderly.

ends at middle age.