SKILL 3: ANSWER STATED DETAIL QUESTIONS CORRECTLY

A question of detail expressed obtains certain information about a piece of data in the section instead of the general input. The answers to these questions are generally given in order in the passage, and the correct answer is often a restatement of what is given in the passage. These queries are mainly questions about what essential point the writer tries to cross in the section. The questions that test stated details are generally multiple-choice questions.

Example:

Williamsburg is a historic city in Virginia that was settled by English colonists in 1633, twenty-six years after the first permanent English colony in America was settled at Jamestown.  In the beginning, the colony at Williamsburg was named Middle Plantation because of its location in the middle of a peninsula between two rivers, the York and the James. The site for Williamsburg had been selected by the colonists because the soil drainage was better there than at the Jamestown location, and there were fewer mosquitoes.

   The passage indicates that Jamestown:

(A)   was settled in 1633

(B)   was settled twenty-six years after Williamsburg

(C)   was the first permanent English colony in America

(D)   was originally named Middle Plantation

The passage directly states that Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in America, therefore the correct answer is (C)

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