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Regents ELA Part 1 reading comprehension skills overview quiz quiz

14questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. How many multiple-choice questions are in Part 1 of the Regents ELA exam?

  2. What three text types typically appear in Part 1?

  3. Why do the Part 1 questions test transferable skills rather than set content?

  4. What is the difference between what a text states and what it implies?

  5. What is a central idea?

  6. What must every sound inference be anchored to?

  7. An inference question offers a measured option and a dramatic one. Which does the Regents reward?

  8. A craft question asks what a simile 'most directly conveys.' What should the answer name?

  9. Why might a writer open an article with one family's story before national statistics?

  10. In what order should you read the Part 1 poem?

  11. A poem calls winter 'a guest who will not take the hint and leave.' What does the metaphor convey?

  12. What are the four steps of a reliable Part 1 multiple-choice routine?

  13. How do you answer a vocabulary-in-context question about a familiar word like 'fatal'?

  14. Which describes a 'true-but-irrelevant' distractor?