The document discusses inferential questions for a comprehension exam. It explains that for these questions, test takers must make deductions using clues from the passage, read between the lines, and figure out what the author is implying. It provides two example inferential questions from past exams: one asking for the reason why discoveries were left in place, and another asking what the author's expression about ordinary life stopped in its tracks tells us about the nature of an eruption in AD 79.

1. The Inferential question
Self study notes for Paper 2: Comprehension

2. What do I have to do?
 Make deduction* using the clues found in the
passage.
 *deduction = to reach a conclusion by thinking about
the information that is available
 Read between the lines and figure out what the
author is implying or suggesting.

3. Examples from past year papers
1. Suggest the reason why Fiorelli insisted that
discoveries “were left in place” (line61) and not
removed to museums.
2. Fiorelli’s excavations told a story of “ordinary life
stopped in its tracks” (line 72). What does the
author’s expression here tells us about the nature
of the eruption in AD 79?