SNAP Practice Quiz

Question 1

Passage: A museum extended its hours on Fridays to attract working professionals. Attendance did rise on Fridays, but surveys showed that most additional visitors were tourists, not local professionals. The museum director concluded that the longer hours were useful, though not in the way originally intended.

What can be inferred from the passage?

Accepted Answer

Extended hours increased attendance, but mainly among a different group than the target audience.

Question 2

Passage: The philosopher warns that people often praise 'authenticity' when they really mean spontaneity. Yet, she argues, an unexamined impulse may reflect habit, imitation, or social pressure rather than the self. Authenticity, in her view, requires reflection, not mere immediacy.

Which inference best captures the philosopher's position?

Accepted Answer

Acting on first impulse is not necessarily authentic, since genuine self-expression may require critical self-examination.

Question 3

Passage: For years, the novelist was dismissed by critics as overly sentimental. After her letters were published, however, scholars began to read her fiction differently, noting the irony and social criticism they had previously overlooked. Her novels did not change; the context in which they were read did.

What is the most valid inference?

Accepted Answer

New background information led readers to reinterpret features already present in the novels.

Question 4

Passage: The editor rejected the essay not because its argument was weak, but because it assumed readers already knew the debate's history. 'A strong argument is wasted on readers who lack the context to follow it,' she wrote. 'A persuasive piece must first create the conditions under which persuasion is possible.'

What is the strongest inference?

Accepted Answer

The editor believed strong arguments are useless unless readers are first given enough context.

SNAP — Syllabus & notes

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