Activity 11: Inferencing

Read this passage and then respond to the questions. Each question will ask you to make a logical inference based on textual details.

Exercise 1 

Read this passage and then respond to the questions. Each question will ask you to make a logical inference based on textual details. 

Kadijah looked in the mirror at the bright red pustule on her nose. She poked at it carefully, afraid that it might burst on her dress. It was large and painful. The more she prodded it, the larger it got. This is not how it was supposed to go! Kadijah thought to herself. Then she began crying. Her mother yelled up the stairs, "Kadijah! Abdul is here!" This news made Kadijah even more distraught. Now her makeup was running and just as she feared, some of it got on her dress. "Why me? Why today?" Kadijah lamented to herself between sobs and gasps.



Exercise 2

Read this passage and then respond to the questions. You will also draw a conclusion based on textual details and explain your answer by referencing the text.

Jack squinted as he tried to see through the holes in the ski mask. He could make out the large bag on the counter. The frightened woman who put it there now had both hands raised. As he took the bag off of the counter, Jack tipped an imaginary hat to the woman. The jest did not brighten her demeanor. Jack exited the first set of doors but stopped in the vestibule. Soon the windows of the building flickered with blue and red lights. Jack hurriedly walked back into the building.

Source: Excelsior Online Writing Lab, https://owl.excelsior.edu/writing-process/audience-awareness/audience-awareness-writing-for-your-audience/
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