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　　I don't know how I became a writer, but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel. My people were of the working class of people. My father, a stone-cutter, was a man with a great respect and veneration¹ for literature. He had a tremendous² memory, and he loved poetry, and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like. Nevertheless it was good poetry, Hamlet's Soliloquy, Macbeth , Mark Antony' s "Funeral Oration³" , Grey' s "Elegy⁴" , and all the rest of it. I heard it all as a child; I memorized and learned⁵ it all. He sent me to college to the state university. The desire to write, which had been strong during all my days in high school, grew stronger still. I was editor of the college paper, the college magazine , etc. , and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in playwriting which had just been established there. I wrote several little one-act plays, still thinking I would become a lawyer or a newspaper man, never daring⁶ to believe I could seriously become a writer. Then I went to Harvard, wrote some more plays there, became obsessed⁷ with the idea that I had to be a playwright⁸, left Harvard, had my plays rejected, and finally in the autumn of 1926, how, why, or in what manner I have never exactly been able to determine. But probably because the force in me that had to write at length sought out its channel, I began to write my first book in London, I was living all alone at that time. I had two rooms－a bedroom and a sitting room－in a litter square in Chelsea in which all the houses had that familiar, smoked brick⁹ and cream-yellow-plaster look.
　51. We may conclude, in regard to the author's development as a writer, that his father _________.
　[A] made an important contribution
　[B] insisted that he choose writing as a career
　[C] opposed his becoming a writer
　[D] insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer
　52. The author believes that he became a writer mostly because of _________.
　[A] his special talent
　[B] his father's teaching¹⁰ and encouragement
　[C] his study at Harvard
　[D] a hidden urge within him
　53. The author _________, 　
　[A] began to think of becoming a writer at Harvard 　
　[B] had always been successful in his writing career 　
　[C] went to Harvard to learn to write plays
　[D] worked as a newspaper man before becoming a writer
　54. The author really started on his way to become a writer _________.
　[A] when he was in high school
　[B] when he was studying at Harvard
　[C] when he lived in London
　[D] after he entered college
　55. A conclusion we cannot safely draw (based upon this passage) about the author's life in 1926 is that _________.
　[A] he was unmarried
　[B] he was miserable about having his plays rejected
　[C] he lived in a house like all the other houses around him
　[D] he started his first novel

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