501 Critical Reading Questions

and a wedding chapel. The mall contributes over one billion dollars each year to the economy of the state of Minnesota. Its owne ...

According to the passage, how did Southdale expand the notion of the shopping mall? a. It added an amusement park. b.It was unh ...

Questions 18–25 are based on the following passage. The following selection explains the origins of sushi, and its popularity in ...

fish is called sashimi). In Japanese, when sushiis combined with a mod- ifier, it changes to the word zushi. Chef Yohei’s invent ...

All of the following can be explicitly answered by reading the passage EXCEPT a. What is the definition of the word sushi? b.Di ...

Questions 26–33 are based on the following passages. Both of these passages were adapted from high school newspaper editorials c ...

Then there is the show that made the genre mainstream—Survivor. The show that pits men and women from all walks of life against ...

Other Reality shows take fame-seekers to the next level by having them compete against one another. American Idol, Star Search, ...

The primary purpose of Passage 2 is to a. refute an argument. b.explore possible outcomes. c. give a brief history. d.explain h ...

What does the author of Passage 1 find most troublesome about Reality TV? a. It isn’t original. b.It doesn’t need writers to co ...

to another. There is evidence to suggest that The Landlord’s Game was played at Princeton, Harvard, and the University of Pennsy ...

How does the objective of The Landlord’s Game differ from that of Monopoly? a. In The Landlord’s Game, you can only rent the pr ...

Why did Mrs. Phillips sell her patent to Parker Brothers? a. So a large company would market her game and spread the word about ...

and Education Act, which exempted restaurants. The new restaurant menus would list calories, fat, and sodium on printed menus, a ...

According to the passage, the larger meals now being offered in restaurants a. cost less than smaller meals. b.add an extra sid ...

If the MEAL Act is passed, consumers would see a. menus that tell them how to select the healthiest complete meal. b.menus that ...

tion on the inventor of the telephone (choice a), other museums in California (choice c), the profession of comptometer opera- t ...

because “raw” is not one of your choices. You can also infer that shimemeans marinated, because mackerel is not one of your choi ...

TV, and the last paragraph repeats the questioning. There are no outcomes or any need for change mentioned. A brief history is g ...

however, the objectives of the games. Note also that evolution was a theory of Charles Darwin, not Charles Darrow. b. Lines 35– ...