501 Critical Reading Questions

b. when people explain things to their friends, they take on a
different appearance.
c. friends rely on one another for vital information.
d. it’s not always easy to play by the rules.
e. word of mouth is the best way to spread information.
38.
In paragraph 4, the author implies that
a. Parker Brothers bought the game from Charles Darrow.
b. it is not difficult to get a patent for an idea you didn’t invent.
c. Monopoly made Parker Brothers and Darrow millions of
dollars.
d. Lizzie Magie tried to sell her game to George Parker.
e. The Landlord’s Game was popular with Quakers.
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39.
Why did Mrs. Phillips sell her patent to Parker Brothers?
a. So a large company would market her game and spread the
word about Henry George’s single tax theory.
b. So she could make money.
c. So The Landlord’s Game could compete with Monopoly.
d. So the truth would be told about Charles Darrow.
e. So she would become famous.
40.
All of the following questions can be explicitly answered on the
basis of the passage EXCEPT
a. Why did Lizzie Magie invent The Landlord’s Game?
b. Was was the object of The Landlord’s Game?
c. What were some of the properties on The Landlord’s Game
board?
d. Who did Charles Darrow sell the game to?
e. How did Parker Brothers find out that Charles Darrow didn’t
invent the game?
Questions 41–47 are based on the following passage.
The following selection is adapted from a news story about a bill recently
introduced in Congress.
In the past thirty years, Americans’ consumption of restaurant and
take-out food has doubled. The result, according to many health
watchdog groups, is an increase in overweight and obesity. Almost 60
million Americans are obese, costing $117 billion each year in health
care and related costs. Members of Congress have decided they need
to do something about the obesity epidemic. A bill was recently intro-
duced in the House that would require restaurants with twenty or
more locations to list the nutritional content of their food on their
menus. A Senate version of the bill is expected in the near future.
Our legislators point to the trend of restaurants’ marketing larger
meals at attractive prices. People order these meals believing that they
are getting a great value, but what they are also getting could be, in
one meal, more than the daily recommended allowances of calories,
fat, and sodium. The question is, would people stop “supersizing,” or
make other healthier choices if they knew the nutritional content of
the food they’re ordering? Lawmakers think they would, and the grav-
ity of the obesity problem has caused them to act to change menus.
The Menu Education and Labeling, or MEAL, Act, would result in
menus that look like the nutrition facts panels found on food in super-
markets. Those panels are required by the 1990 Nutrition Labeling
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