Questions 1-5
5. What is the purpose of the e-mail?
A. To let the girl know she has been rejected
10. Who does he refer to?
A. Mr. Johansen
13. What is the passage mainly about?
B. How one mutiny happened
16. When was the Cambodian coup?
B. March 17
What type of question asks you to make a guess about what is probably, or most likely, true?
Inference question
1. What is the purpose of the notice?
B. To encourage students to get donations
8. The word consolation is closest in meaning to ___________.
D. encouragement
12. What did Peter suggest Billy should do as repayment for his help?
D. Help another student
19. The word orchestrated is closest in meaning to _____________.
B. planned
What type of question is this?
According to the passage, all of the following are things students must do EXCEPT ________.
3. The word obsolete is closest in meaning to _________.
D. out-of-date
6. Which of the following people do the interns NOT work with?
C. The readers
15. The word offense is closest in meaning to __________.
B. crime
17. What does their refer to?
C. The mutineers
What type of question is this?
The word it refers to _______.
Pronoun Referent / Reference
4. The word corresponds is closest in meaning to ___________.
C. matches
9. What is the best title for the passage?
C. Billy Gets a Tutor
11. Why did Billy ask Peter to help?
B. Peter gets good grades in math.
20. When the author writes, "Glatkowski was eventually released to the U.S. to face the music," the author means ________________.
A. he was sent home to be punished for his actions
What is the first step to answer a factual question?
Find the key word(s)/phrase and WH-word in the question.
2. Which of the following is the school NOT purchasing?
D. New mouse pads
7. What is most likely true about Miss Simms?
A. She is fifteen years old.
14. What is most likely true about guns on the Columbia Eagle?
18. Look at the four squares. They show where the following sentence could be added to the passage.
After the coup, the men became prisoners of the new government.
Where would the sentence best fit?
B. 2
What type of question is this?
Why does the author mention dog breeds?
Rhetorical Structure