If a reader wants to evaluate a text , which is the best question to ask while reading it?

you can restate the the question

Explanation:

Why did John helped the boy  the sidewalk

John helped the boy by the side walk because the text says he was a kindly and friendly friend.

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chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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