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ACT Reading the four passage types overview quiz quiz

12questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What are the four ACT Reading passage subject areas?

  2. Literary narrative passages on the ACT mostly test:

  3. How should you handle the many figures in a fact-dense social science passage?

  4. A humanities essay calls a painter 'rightly celebrated, though his late work still puzzles me.' The author's attitude is:

  5. Do you need prior science knowledge for ACT natural science passages?

  6. A passage explains: warmer water holds less oxygen, so fish in heated rivers face lower oxygen, which stresses them. The cause of the fish stress is:

  7. Across all three informational passage types, the most reliable habit is to:

  8. An informational detail question's wrong answers are most often:

  9. How does reading a literary passage differ from reading an informational one?

  10. In a literary passage, a son keeps glancing at the door while his mother talks. This most likely conveys:

  11. Which passage types are read by 'locating' rather than 'inferring'?

  12. Why should you not skip the natural science and paired passages?