501 Critical Reading Questions

a.
really did make a deal with the devil.
b.
was determined to become a great guitarist, whatever the cost.
c.
wasn’t as talented as we have been led to believe.
d.
disappeared because he had a breakdown.
e.
owes his success to Son House and Willie Brown.
326.
The word 
neologism
in Passage 2, line 10 means
a.
a new word or use of a word.
b.
a grassroots musical form.
c.
a fictional character or fictitious setting.
d.
the origin or source of something.
c.
the evolution of a person, place, or thing.
327.
In Passage 2, the sentence 
People all across America—black and white,
young and old, listened to songs with lyrics that were intensely honest and
personal, songs that told about any number of things that give us the
blues: loneliness, betrayal, unrequited love, a run of bad luck, being out of
work or away from home or broke or broken hearted
(lines 43–47), the
author is