1.

We use summarizing to:

a. retell a story
b. reduce information to essential ideas
c. get through an article more quickly
d. avoid long reading
2. What can one summarize?
a. only books c. only blogs
b. only essays d. whatever you read
3. Which is not part of the summary?
a. exact words from the text
b. summary shorter than text
c. using own words to summarize
d. including main point only
4. What is the first step to summarizing a passage?
a. careful reading c. reading only introduction
b. reading from the end d. reading only main body
5. A summary should consist of?
a. introduction only c. conclusion only
b. main points d. pictures
6. What is the best strategy for summarizing?
a. careful reading c. main idea
b. looking for important d. all of the above
details
7. When summarizing, we want to __________________ unimportant information.
a. summarize c. disregard
b. highlight d. give importance
8. The main idea is __________________________
a. all the information provided
b. the most important information
c. nothing to worry about
d. provide extra information
9. Summary is a ___________________ version of an original material.
a. ideas c. beginning
b. opinions d. shortened
10. In summarizing key information, one must include personal opinions when summarizing key
information.
a. agree
b. disagree
11. In summarizing key information, one must include only the supporting details in your
summary.
a. agree
b. disagree
12. In summarizing key information, one must include all important ideas from the original text.
a. agree
 b. disagree
13. In summarizing key information, one must write a text with same length as the original text.
a. agree
b. disagree
14. In summarizing key information, one must maintain coherence when writing a summary.
a. agree
b. disagree
15. Give the difference of paraphrasing and summarizing.
 The details in paraphrasing is almost the same length while in summarizing, the
details are shorter or brief.