501 Critical Reading Questions

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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