Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:

Aside from the actual words on the page, what additional factors affect your interaction with a text?
a) The author’s purpose in writing the essay
b) Your purpose in reading the essay
c) The audience for which the essay was intended
d) All of the above

Question 2:

Which of the following questions should you ask when pre-reading?
a) How much do I know about this topic?
b) What questions do I have about this topic?
c) What are my views on this topic?
d) All of the above

Question 3:

When preparing to read an article, an active reader begins by doing what?
a) reading closely and carefully
b) scanning the article
c) making notes of key points from the article
d) All of the above

Question 4:

Looking at a text’s subject or author index, keeping an eye out for content markers such as headings, and targeting topic sentences are all examples of what?
a) Inferring
b) Annotating
c) Scanning
d) Studying

Question 5:

When is it useful to employ selective reading?
a) When reading to determine whether an essay is related to your topic
b) When reading to use the text as a secondary source in your essay
c) When reading to respond or analyze
d) All of the above

Question 6:

In a targeted scan, you read to do what?
a) Get the overall gist of a text
b) Look for specific content
c) See how long the article is
d) Memorize

Question 7:

Why is it important to identify topic sentences?
a) They encapsulate the main idea of a paragraph.
b) They offer supporting evidence for claims.
c) They provide transitions between ideas.
d) All of the above

Question 8:

At the pre-reading stage, it is not important to record bibliographic information.
a) True
b) False

Question 9:

Which of the following is true about the reading process?
a) Reading is interactive.
b) Reading is passive.
c) Readers approach texts in similar ways.
d) None of the above

Question 10:

What does a transitional word shows?
a) The rhetorical pattern of a paragraph
b) The main idea of a sentence
c) The relationship between ideas
d) None of the above

Question 11:

Which of the following is true about the connotation of a word?
a) It is often suggested by its context.
b) It is always found in a dictionary.
c) It is irrelevant.
d) It is impossible to know the true connotation of a word.

Question 12:

Our speaking vocabularies are smaller than our recognition vocabularies.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

The Active Reader, Third Edition: Chapter 5