Critical Reading [7-9, Popular Culture]

Questions 7–9 are based on the following passage.

This selection introduces [bad word] Museum of America, and details an
important item in its collection.

Wondering what to do with that old Atari Home Video Game in the
attic? It’s on the wish list of [bad word] Museum of America, in San
Diego, California, which hopes you will donate it to their holdings.
The Museum was founded in 1983 to amass and preserve historic [bad word] equipment such as calculators, card punches, and typewriters,
and now owns one of the world’s largest collections. In addition,
it has archives [bad word] related magazines, manuals, and books
that are available to students, authors, researchers, and others for historical
research.

One item currently on display is a [bad word]  advertised
as “The Machine Gun of the Office.” [bad word] was first
sneered at by accountants and bookkeepers, many of whom could add
four columns of numbers in their heads. The new machine was the
first that could do the work faster than humans. [bad word] 
gained a large following, and its operation became a formal profession
that required serious training. But by the [bad word] took over,
 [bad word]  and the job of operating them, became obsolete.

7. All of the following are probably part of the collection of the [bad word] Museum of America EXCEPT
a. adding machines.
b. [bad word] 
c. operation manuals for calculators.
d. card punch machines.
e. kitchen scales.

8. In line 12, the author used the words sneered at to show
a. a negative image of accountants.
b. what accountants and bookkeepers looked like.
c. the negative reaction to [bad word] 
d. the precursor of [bad word] operator.
e. how fast accountants and bookkeepers could add.

9. What term paper topic could probably be researched at the [bad word] Museum of America?
a. Alexander Graham Bell’s contributions to American society
b. IBM’s contribution to the development of the modern [bad word] 
c. more than just paintings: the museums of California
d. the rise and fall of [bad word] operator
e. why video games are harmful to our nation’s youth