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INFERENCE QUESTIONS The answers to these questions are not directly provided in the passage, you must
“read between the lines”. In other words, you must make conclusions based indirectly on information in the passage.
Inference questions may be phrased in a number of ways. Many of these questions contain some form of the words
infer
or
imply
. Sample questions:
1. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
2. It can be inferred from the passage that…
3. The author
implies that…. 4.
Which of the following does the passage imply? 5.
Which of the following would be the most reasonable guess about….? 6.
The author suggests that… 7.
It is probable that…
REFERENCE QUESTIONS Reference questions ask what noun called the referent a pronoun or some other
expression refers to. The correct answer is NOT always the noun that is closest to the pronoun in the passage. Incorrect choices are usually other nouns that appear in the
passage. If you are unable to decide immediately which answer is correct, substitute the choices for the word that is being asked about. Which one is the most logical
substitute? In general, reference questions tend to be the easiest type of reading question.
Sample questions: 1.
The word “them” in line 4 refers to…. 2.
To which of the following does the word “these” in line 5 refer?
3. The phrase “another type” in line 7 is a reference to another type of….
4. The word “this” in line 9 refers to….
5. What does the word “its” in line 11 refer to?
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