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Practice Test

Question 1 • English Language Arts 12

Look at the excerpt from "How to Think Like a Researcher," a chapter from How to Find Out Anything . More to our purpose, we need to ask answerable questions for the eminently practical reason that if a question has no end, neither does the research. Pursuing an open-ended question can be a fool’s errand. So, to become a skilled researcher, step number one is learning how to craft the answerable question. ______________ To become a skilled researcher, step number one is learning how to craft the answerable question. _______________ Say you’re a reporter for a business magazine and your editor wants to run an article on computer executive compensation. The editor asks you to find out if computer executives are overpaid. This is a great idea for a magazine article. It would probably make for a nifty feature in any number of business and tech magazines. What text feature does this excerpt include?

Answer
A
a subtitle
B
a callout
C
a sidebar
D
a heading

Explanation

The sentence about learning to craft an answerable question is repeated and set apart from the surrounding paragraph. A highlighted quotation or key statement displayed this way is a callout. It is not a heading or subtitle because it does not introduce a new section or give the excerpt a title.

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