501 Critical Reading Questions

of Americans willing to ingest capsules of pulverized garlic or other herbal supplements in the name of health. Complementary an ...

public with information about which are safe and effective and which are a waste of money, or possibly dangerous. So what about ...

The author most likely uses the Harvard survey results (lines 10–13) to imply that a. as people age they always become more con ...

The author suggests that cross[ing] the line into mainstream medicine (lines 36–37) involves a. performing stringently controll ...

anti-fat, pro-carbohydrate gospel, food manufacturers have pumped out fat-free grain products that lure consumers with the promi ...

and nuts are beneficial to the heart and may deserve a larger propor- tion in the American diet than their place at the tip of t ...

The author uses the word Fact(line 14) in order to a. draw a conclusion about the USDA’s dietary recommendations. b.imply that ...

The author of the passage would most likely agree with which statement? a. The federal government knowingly gave the public mis ...

and drive depicted in the passage. Choices band eare incorrect; Leeuwenhoek was not trained nor did he know that his discover- i ...

e. The Geneva Medical College student body voted “yes” on Black- well’s admittance as a joke(line 38). b.Initially Blackwell wa ...

e. Hedged(line 63) can mean hindered or hemmed in, but in this instance, it most nearly means evaded. The author suggests in li ...

a. The author contrasts the public’s dismissal of the arcane practice of wearing garlic with its increasing acceptance of herba ...

a. The author names a sedentary lifestyle of TV watching and Internet surfing(lines 24–25) as a contributing factor to the rise ...

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Questions 233–237 are based on the following passage. The following passage is from Frank McCourt’s 1996 memoirAngela’s Ashes. T ...

because their sons go to the rich schools and, Ye have no right to raise your hands to a better class of people so ye don’t. Th ...

Questions 238–242 are based on the following passage. In this excerpt from Toni Morrison’s 1970 novel The Bluest Eye, Pauline tr ...

Pauline’s loneliness is differentfrom the loneliness she felt back home (lines 10–11) because a. she’s more bored than lonely. ...

“Help,” he said to the ground. He knew the words to a million songs: Indian, European, African, Mexican, Asian. He sang “Stairwa ...

The sentence Then the BIA poured those tears into beer and Pepsi cans and distributed them back onto the reservation(lines 11–1 ...