501 Critical Reading Questions

a.
advocate.
b.
nurture.
c.
promote.
d.
foster.
e.
practice.
99.
The author uses the image of 
salesmen handing out free samples
(lines
57–58) in order to
a.
depict Lewis and Clark as entrepreneurs.
b.
illustrate the generosity Lewis and Clark showed the tribal 
people they met.
c.
suggest that Lewis and Clark hoped to personally profit from
their travels.
d.
imply that everyone likes to get something for free.
e.
show the promotional intent behind the explorers’ gift-giving.
100.
The passage is developed primarily through
a.
the contrast of different abstract principles.
b.
quotations from one specific text.
c.
the analysis of one extended example.
d.
first-person narratives.
e.
recurring symbols.
101.
The author’s primary purpose in the passage is to