Expository writing is fact-based, so why does it sometimes include more than just facts?

What method did party bosses use to maintain the power of their political machines?

By the late 1930s, how were u.s. officials beginning to view japanese policies of expansion? a. they attempted to join forces with japan so as to increase u.s. territory. b. they warned them to stop expansionist actions or face potential u.s. intervention. c. they sent representatives to japan to work out territorial rights in a diplomatic fashion. d. they became fearful of their military power

How were the okanogan highlands formed? a. by subduction, which caused huge folds in earths surface b. as a result of retreating glaciers carving great valleys into the earth c. when molten rock from under the earth approached the surface d. when the collision of volcanic island chains and ocean rocks formed new earth