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__**INFERENCE QUESTIONS**__ 1. **Describe the stranger's state of mind. What makes you think this?** The stranger was mysterious, because the wife had never seen him. 2. **Is the stranger poor, middle class, or rich? Which phrases give you clues?** He was rich because he dressed in fancy clothes and wore a silk hat. 3. **In what kind of place are the old couple living? Which words tell you this?** They live in a fancy place because it has a gate and a path to walk up. 4. **Who is Herbert? What makes you think this?** Herbert might be her son because she is really worried about him. 5. **What has happened to Herbert? Which phrases give you clues?** He is hurt because the visitor said hes hurt badly. 6. **What is the woman's reaction to hearing about Herbert? What makes you think this?** She is upset because she gets really worried when he tells her what happened. 7. **The passage describes the husband as "slower-witted." What does that imply?** He doesnt understand things very well.
 * "Part A: Inference"**

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 * "Part B: Critical Reading" **
 * "The Trees Are All Right" By Timothy Egan **
 * __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.T **he western red cedar, armored in bark that Indians made into waterproof clothing, is a symbol of the Northwest.
 * 1. **The saguaro cactus, with its droopy, anthropomorphic limbs, is the signature tree of the Southwest, though some say it is not technically a tree.
 * 2. **This arbor tutorial is prompted by the slack-jawed ignorance of the last Republicans standing in the bad-idea-fest that is their party primary.
 * 3. **Romney, of course, famously said he liked the trees of Michigan because they were “just the right height” — a bizarre and harmless pander.