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" **Part A: Inference** ." __**INFERENCE QUESTIONS**__ 1. Describe the stranger's state of mind. What makes you think this? He sounds creepy because he is staring at the house.

2. Is the stranger poor, middle class, or rich? Which phrases give you clues? Rich, because he had a big bag of money.

3. In what kind of place are the old couple living? Which words tell you this? Messy, because she apoplogizes for it.

4. Who is Herbert? What makes you think this? The son because she is so worried.

5. What has happened to Herbert? Which phrases give you clues? He dies, and the monkey hand has a curse on it. ( I have already read this story)

6. What is the woman's reaction to hearing about Herbert? What makes you think this? She goes crazy and then relaxes.

7. The passage describes the husband as "slower-witted." What does that imply? He is not that bright. The Trees are okay. " **Part B: Critical Reading** ." Facts- 1. The tallest trees in the world, the coast redwoods of northern California, grow to 378 feet — more than half the size of Seattle’s Space Needle. 2. The oldest trees in the world, bristlecone pines that cling to hard ground in Nevada’s Great Basin, can live for up to 5,000 years. 3. The saguaro cactus is not technacilly a tree.

Opinions. 1.Romney likes the trees of Michigan because they were “just the right height”. 2.The fire-breathing Republican Teddy Roosevelt. 3. Santorum said the best are American cathedrals.