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A study on readers' goals found that in contrast to readers who were told they were reading an article of general interest, readers who were told that they were studying for an essay exam made more
 
  a. inferences.
  b. evaluative statements.
  c. Both inferences and evaluative statements
  d. Neither inferences nor evaluative statements.

Question 2

Kintsch found that the readability of a paragraph is primarily determined by
 
  a. sentence length and word frequency.
  b. word frequency and the number of reinstatement searches.
  c. sentence length and the number of inferences.
  d. the number of reinstatement searches and sentence length.



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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

B



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