Inferencing

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5 questions

Read the excerpt from the story, Hope Was Here, by Joan Bauer. Then read the quotes from the passage below and choose an inference that could be logically drawn from each passage.

We were standing by the boarded-up windows of what had once been the greatest diner in Brooklyn. The Blue Box was shut up like a tomb. You couldn’t see the green vinyl booths by the window or the big oval counter that sat in the middle of the place like the center ring in a circus. There weren’t any whiffs of stuffed pork tenderloin with apricots or country meatloaf with garlic mashed potatoes or Addie’s famous cinnamon ice cream dripping down that deep-dish apple pie of hers with crust so buttery it would bring cabdrivers to their knees in pure reverence. Anyone from Brooklyn knows cabdrivers don’t bow the knee for much.

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
inference		to inspect in detail to determine meaning
text evidence		an idea formed by combining text evidence and one’s own reasoning and background knowledge
examine		details from the text that a reader can use to support his or her ideas and opinions about the text

“We were standing by the boarded-up windows of what had once been the greatest diner in Brooklyn.”Answer choices for the above question

“You couldn’t see the green vinyl booths by the window or the big oval counter that sat in the middle of the place like the center ring in a circus.”Answer choices for the above question

“There weren’t any whiffs of stuffed pork tenderloin with apricots or country meatloaf with garlic mashed potatoes or Addie’s famous cinnamon ice cream dripping down that deep-dish apple pie of hers with crust so buttery it would bring cabdrivers to their knees...” Answer choices for the above question

“... it would bring cabdrivers to their knees in pure reverence. Anyone from Brooklyn knows cabdrivers don’t bow the knee for much.” Answer choices for the above question