Name: Almanda Tiara Mahdani (1620600017) Date

CRITICAL READING: DISTINGUISH FACT FROM OPINION

Read each of the following statements and place an F in the blanks that you feel are mostly fact and O in the blanks of those statements that are
mostly opinion.

1. A world auction record for a single piece of furniture $415,800 for Louis XVI table – was set today at a sale of the French
furniture collection of the late Mrs. Anna Thomson Dodge of the Detroit auto fortune. (From a United Press release) points:
10

•Fact
Opinion

2. The junior college is a better place to attend school for the first two years than is a university or four-year
school. This is so primarily because classes are smaller at a junior college and more individualized attention can
be given to students. points: 10

Fact
•Opinion

3. Medsker and Trent found that four-year colleges draw approximately three-fourths of their freshmen from the upper
40 percent of the high school graduating class, whereas about half the junior college transfer students were in the
upper 40 percent of their high school graduating classes. (From K. Patricia Cross, The Junior College Student: A Research
Description.) points: 10

Fact Opinion

4. A black can expect to live, on average, seven years less than a white person of the same sex, to enjoy a little more
than half the income – even if he has more education than his white brothers – and to suffer about twice the
unemployment rate. (From Robert K. Carr, et al., Essentials of American Democracy. points: 10

Fact Opinion

5. Not since the frontier days have the American Indians faced greater threats to their existence than they do today.
Malnutrition, disease, and despair are rampant. Their school dropout rate is 50 percent greater than the national
average. Unemployment is 10 times the rate of other Americans. The American Indian today has the shortest life
expectancy of any group in the country. points: 10

Fact
•Opinion

6. At the pinnacle of God’s creation are you and every other human being. This makes every person precious to
God, a fact which calls us to love ourselves as well as God and other men. points: 10

Fact
•Opinion

7. Adolf Hitler’s mistress, Eva Braun, was pudgy, middle-class blonde who gloomed more than she glittered. Yet her
name will go down in history alongside such famous and glamorous kept women as Lola Montez, Madame de
Pompadour, Nell Gwyn, and the Du Barry (From Time Magazine, June 21, 1971) points: 10

•Fact
Opinion

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8. We hold these truths to be self-evident, (a) that all men are created equal; (b) that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights; (c) that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; (d) that to secure
these rights governments are instituted among men (From Declaration of Independence) points: 10

Fact
•Opinion

9. Businessmen, especially big businessmen, do whatever they want to you: They set outrageously high prices on their
products, bombard you with advertising so that you’ll buy something you don’t want and didn’t even need, and then
make sure that what you’ve bought falls apart just when you get it home. (From Angus Black, A Radical’s Guide to
Economic Reality) points: 10

Fact
Opinion

10. America’s Favorite Cigarette Break – Benson & Hedges 100’s. (From Benson & Hedges advertising slogan). points:
10 Fact
Opinion