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We closed our eyes, held our breath, and held on tight. What can you reasonable infer from this sentence?

• We were riding our bikes.
• We were on a roller coaster.
• We were riding our bikes.

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What can you infer about this setting?Mr. Furlich is munching on his lunch. There is a lot of noise as he walks by the table chatting with students.

• Mr. Furlich is at McDonalds.
• He is in the office.
• Mr. Furlich is a runner.
• He is in the cafeteria.

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Mike had fun hiking in the woods and doing crafts.  He also really enjoyed the campfire sing-a-long and had made a lot of new friends. Still, he was glad that tomorrow he would be going home.
Where is Mike?

• at camp
• at a slumber party
• on a picnic
• in California 

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What could be an inference made on Charlie's future based on what we know from the story and its ending?

• That Charlie would die
• That Charlie would become smart again
• That Charlie and Miss Kinnian will get married
• Charlie will go back and forth with being smart

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Which of the following is an example of indirect characterization?

• Marcia was a good listener and wonderful friend.
• Marcia felt the knot in her stomach grow when she saw the number of questions on the test, and she tugged her hair anxiously. 
• Marcia was a nervous person.
• Marcia was an optimist who always believed the best about people.

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To make an inference, you use what you read or see and combine it with…

• what you already know
• text details
• the main idea
• an educated guess

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Each year during the last week in April, the old man began his garden. He planted tomatoes during the second week in May. He weeded the garden as the plants grew. By the middle of summer, the tomatoes were ready to sell. Many people bought them. They liked his red, ripe tomatoes. By labor Day it was time for the old man to pull up all his tomato plants.

Is the following sentence a fact or an inference?

He weeded the garden as the plants grew.

• Fact

• Inference

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In the passage below, what can you infer about the setting of the story?

When the men reached Oregon, they stepped out of their wagons and embraced. The journey was long and dangerous, but they made it. Soon, their families would follow their trail in their own wagons, leaving their homes in the East to meet them in this brand new land: the West.

• The story might take place on a different planet.

• The story might take place in the past.

• The story might take place in a desert.

• We can’t make any inferences about the setting from this passage.

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Why did the doctor allow Two-Bit and Ponyboy to visit Johnny?

• The boys had been there the whole time and the doctor saw that

• Johnny had been asking for them and the doctor realized they were his only family

• Johnny had denied his family seeing him and he figured his friends were ok.

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Sometimes we have to “read between the lines.” Authors don’t always tell us everything. We need to use text evidence and prior knowledge to understand the text better.

• True

• False

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