501 Critical Reading Questions

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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