501 Critical Reading Questions

b. Alice Marble believed that talent should decide who can be a
champion, not race (choice b). Nowhere in her comments did
Alice Marble say baseball, football, and boxing are more enter-
taining than tennis (choice a), or that there were undeserving
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players in the U.S. Nationals (choice c). Nor did she propose that
the USLTA make the tournament open to anybody (choice d).
429.
d. Althea’s friend probably suggested that Althea try lawn tennis
because she was a champion paddle tennis player and enjoyed
the sport very much (lines 16–17). The other choices either
don’t make sense or are not supported by facts from the passage.
430.
e. In lines 71–75, the passage states that Althea won a total of
eleven Grand Slam titles in her career. However, nowhere in
the passage does it state that those eleven titles were a record
number for a female.
431.
e. The answer is found in line 58 of the passage. Chick Gandil
first approached the gambler with his scheme, and then
recruited the seven other players.
432.
b. Parsimonious is a word used to describe someone who is frugal
to the point of stinginess. Comiskey’s pay cuts (line 27), bonus
of cheap champagne (lines 32–33), refusal to launder uniforms
(lines 33–34), and his benching of Eddie Ciccotte (lines 42–44)
are all clues that should help you deduce the answer from the
given choices.
433.
b. Answering this question involves a bit of deductive reasoning.
Though the actual name of the ballpark is never given in the
passage, lines 20–21 state that the 1917 White Sox won the
World Series playing in a park named for their owner.
434.
a. As it is used in line 54, thrown means to have lost intentionally.
The answer to this question is found in lines 59–60. For
$100,000 Chick Gandil would make sure the Sox lost the Series.
435.
c. Lines 14–16 state between the years of 1900 and 1915 the White
Sox had won the World Series only once, and then line 21 tells us
they won it again in 1917. Be careful not to mistakenly select
choice d, three; the question asks for the number of World
Series the Sox won, not the number of Series played.
436.
d. In lines 42–44 the author states that after Ciccotte won his twenty-
ninth game he was benched by Comiskey for the rest of the season.
Choice d asks for the number of games he pitched. It is stated
that he pitched and won twenty-nine games in 1919, but the
passage doesn’t mention the number of games he pitched in
which he lost, so you can’t know for sure.
437.
b. Ignominious is a word used to describe something marked with
shame or disgrace, something dishonorable. The ignominious
label referred to in lines 71–72 is Black Sox—the nickname the
Chicago press took to calling the scandalized and disgraced
White Sox team.
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