ACT Reading Exam 27 Questions with Verified Answers
The best way to practice for the Reading Test is? - CORRECT ANSWER READING. The more you read, the
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All the information you need to answer the questions is contained within the passages. - CORRECT ANSWER Knowing the types of questions asked in the Reading Section will help you know where to search for the answers.
How many passages are there? - CORRECT ANSWER Four. Prose fiction and three nonfiction passages.
How many questions per passage? - CORRECT ANSWER Ten
Flyover - CORRECT ANSWER A quick look at the passage BEFORE reading the questions paying attention to the first and last sentences in each paragraph.
I. Prose Fiction
There are 5 types of questions: - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Specific Detail
2. Inference
3. Character Generalization
4. Point of View
5. Cause-Effect
1. Specific Details and Facts - CORRECT ANSWER The most straightforward questions you'll encounter. Simply find the details within the passage. Expect 3 or 4 specific detail questions about the PF passage.
1. Specific Details - CORRECT ANSWER Many questions have key words in the question or choices that will enable you to find the correct section of the passage to support your answer.
1. Specific Details - CORRECT ANSWER Read each choice carefully and don't fall for a choice that has the exact some wording as the passage but used in the wrong context.
2. Inference - CORRECT ANSWER These questions ask for implied information. You must use information in the passage to figure out something else. Look for verbs like: suggest, infer, imply and indicate.
2. Inference - CORRECT ANSWER Anything directly stated by the author is not an inference.
3. Character generalization - CORRECT ANSWER Found only in PF. These questions ask you to reduce a lot of information about a character into one statement.
4. Point of View - CORRECT ANSWER Will generally ask you to describe the narrator's point of view. Look for adjectives that describe emotion: brilliant, excited, delightful, gloomy, disappointing.
4. Point of View - CORRECT ANSWER It may be helpful to arrange all the answer choices from most negative to most positive.
4. Point of View Question: The author's attitude on this topic is best described as:
A. indignation
B. eagerness
C. impartiality
D. fear - CORRECT ANSWER From negative to positive:
indignation
fear
impartiality
eagerness
4. In trying to understand the author's point of view, you may be asked about how the passage is organized. - CORRECT ANSWER Which of the following best describes the organization of the author's discussion on this topic?
A. He provides an example.
B. He makes a comparison.
C. He makes an acknowledgement.
D. He discusses a theory.
5. Cause-Effect - CORRECT ANSWER Ask you to identify the cause or the effect of a situation. Look for: resulted in, and led to for effect questions. Look for: caused by and because for cause questions.
Three Nonfiction Passages - CORRECT ANSWER II. Social Science
III. Humanities
IV. Natural Science
II. Social Science - CORRECT ANSWER Follows PF and contains the following type questions:
1. Specific Detail
2. Inference
4. Point of View
5. Cause-Effect
6. Main Idea and Argument
7. Comparison
8. Vocabulary
7. Vocabulary - CORRECT ANSWER Don't go with your first impulse. Has the vocabulary word been used in an unusual context?
7. Vocabulary Example: "He was notorious for making decisions on the spur of the moment..."
Question: Which of the following words, if substituted for the word "notorious" would introduce the LEAST change in the meaning of the sentence? - CORRECT ANSWER A. evil
B. disturbed
C. famous
D. despised
Choice C is correct even though it is not one of the most common definitions of notorious.
5. Main Idea and Focus
Which of the following best explains the author's primary purpose?
A. dispute....
B. describe...
C. condemn...
D. convince... - CORRECT ANSWER An easy strategy for Main Idea analysis may be to look at the first words in each answer choice to see if you can make a decision.
III. Humanities - CORRECT ANSWER Generally about a topic of current interest and contains the following type questions:
1. Specific Detail
2. Inference
6. Main Idea and Argument
7. Comparison
8. Vocabulary
IV. Natural Science - CORRECT ANSWER Heavy on scientific fact, argument, cause-effect logic and details and contains the following type questions:
1. Specific Detail
2. Inference
4. Point of View
5. Cause-Effect
6. Main Idea and Argument
7. Comparison
8. Vocabulary
Factually Correct buy Actually Wrong - CORRECT ANSWER Question writers often give answer choices that are factually correct but fail to answer the question.
WHAT IS THE QUESTION?
Different Viewpoints - CORRECT ANSWER Make sure when multiple opinions are expressed, you have to decide who is expressing what in the passage in order to answer Point of View questions.
Extraneous Information - CORRECT ANSWER Check and make sure that your answer does not contain information that was not in the passage. [Show Less]