All of the following questions will help you make inferences EXCEPT,
a. What are the details of the situation?
b. What is the writer's purpose?
c. What are the author's credentials?
d. What do the meanings of the words suggest?
Ques. 2Suppose you enter an expressway while driving to work and you see a long, slow-moving line of traffic. You decide there has been an accident, so you exit as soon as possible. You have made
a. an informed opinion.
b. an evaluation.
c. a generalization.
d. an inference.
Ques. 3The word critical in the phrase critical thinking can best be described as
a. analytical.
b. negative.
c. essential.
d. alternative.
Ques. 4The characteristics of critical thinking are also necessary ingredients for
effective problem solving.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 5The primary purpose of reading critically is to help you
a. evaluate ideas.
b. identify the structure of the writing.
c. clarify the source of an author's ideas.
d. weaken the force of the author's arguments.
Ques. 6Which of the following is characteristic of biased writing?
a. It analyzes examples in great detail.
b. It favors a particular viewpoint.
c. It presents evidence objectively.
d. It contains numerous untrue statements.
Ques. 7Which of the following questions would be most helpful in evaluating the authority of an article you want to use for a political science research paper?
a. How many people subscribe to the journal in which the article is found?
b. What type of references does it use?
c. How many authors were involved in writing the article?
d. Why did the author(s) write the article?
Ques. 8When we read between the lines in a piece of writing, we do so for all but one of the following reasons.
a. To find the author's stated and unstated message
b. To learn about the author's background
c. To find main ideas and central messages
d. To use inference skills to fill in gaps
Ques. 9A critical reader has the ability to use all but one of these skills.
a. Distinguishing between fact and opinion
b. Using intuition to reach conclusions
c. Separating important from unimportant information
d. Uncovering the writer's purpose and tone
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