The questions are of the same difficulty level, which test for factual information, literal explanations, cause-effect relations, and inference. Since I am testing the participant's comprehension of these passages, none of the questions are passage independent. ... I told her that this was no formal way of testing and that she could stop anytime she felt like it. ...
If you're from the American south, you may feel that you share a unique bond with other southerners. Traditions, values, speech patterns, and even favorite foods bind them together in a way that "outsiders"" may find hard to understand. Pulitzer Prize winning contemporary author Rick Bragg builds upon the powerful legacy of other southern writers, such as Eudora Welty and William Faulkner, but with a style all his own, making his real-life stories of growing up poor in Alabama poignant and often humorous. Rick Bragg is an extremely gifted writer whose works have acquired a universal audie...
