In "a cub pilot," the author says, "judgment is a matter of brains, and a man must start with a good stock of that article, or he will never succeed as a pilot." the author's point is that -
people are either born with good judgment or they are not.
a pilot's success depends only on good judgement.
people must develop good judgement if they want to be pilots.
pilots need a good stock of material possessions to succeed on the river.
which of the following is a characteristic of the young narrator in the memoir "a cub pilot"?
pious
frantic
incompetent
discouraged
which words best the reader understand the meaning of the word "glibly" in the following sentence from the story? to know the old and new testaments by heart and be able to recite them glibly, forward or backward, or begin at random anywhere in the book and recite both ways and never trip or make a mistake, is no extravagant mass of knowledge, and no marvelous facility, compared to a pilot's massed knowledge of the mississippi and his marvelous facility in the handling of it.
never trip, no marvelous facility
old and new testament, mississippi
knowledge, marvelous, comparison
expanding, strong, mistake