501 Critical Reading Questions

Questions 48–51 are based on the following passage. The following passage discusses the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review ...

argued that judicial review protected the will of the people by making the Constitution supreme over the legislature, which migh ...

Questions 52–55 are based on the following passage. In the following passage, the author gives an account of the development of ...

The passage suggests which of the following about Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation? a. Abolitionists did not support such an ...

way that will inform, amuse, provoke, poke, and persuade readers. Car- toons take on the principal issues and leaders of the day ...

In line 14, vehiclemost nearly means a. automobile. b.carrier. c. tunnel. d.outlet. e.means. The author cites Thomas Nast’s dep ...

hoped, led to a 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregated buses. In 1960, four black freshmen from North Carolina Agricultu ...

The passage is primarily concerned with a. enumerating the injustices that African Americans faced. b.describing the strategies ...

The term refrainas it is used in line 42 most nearly means a. song lyric. b.allegory. c. recurring phrase. d.poem stanza. e.ari ...

from throughout the world who contributed to the economic and pop- ulation explosion that characterized the early history of the ...

The first paragraph (lines 1–14) of the passage serves what function in the development of the passage? a. provides an expert’s ...

According to the passage, which of the following is NOT a contribution made by Chinese immigrants? a. worked land so that it wo ...

could operate it. Nevertheless it was an English immigrant, Samuel Slater, who finally introduced British cotton technology to A ...

The primary purpose of the passage is to a. account for the decline of rural America. b.contrast political views held by the Br ...

The author implies that the catalyst(line 26) behind the spread of American textile mills in the early 1800s was a. Slater’s in ...

farmland turned to dust and crop prices dropped by 50%. The effects of the American depression—severe unemployment rates and a s ...

Commission, which regulated the stock market. Although the New Deal offered relief, it did not end the depression. The economy s ...

The term policiesas it is used in lines 23–24 most nearly means a. theories. b.practices. c. laws. d.examples. e.problems. The ...

Questions 92–101 are based on the following passage. In 1804 President Thomas Jefferson sent Army Officers Meriwether Lewis and ...

The American republic began to issue peace medals during the first Washington administration, continuing a tradition established ...