Questions 1. Why did the author go to the drugstore one day? 2. How old was the salesgirl? 3. What was the salesgirl’s reaction to the author’s mental arithmetic (心算)? 4. Did the salesgirl believe that the author did calculations by magic? Why or why not? 5. What was the author? 6. What did the author think of American agers? 7. In the author’s opinion, what was the most serious problem for American agers? 8. Why did the author give us the example of his friend’s son? 9. According to the author, what would happen if there was an idle, ignorant labor force in a modern industrial state? 10. What was the author’s purpose of offering a fable?