Inferences Exercise 5

Read each passage and then choose the two logical inferences from the choices at the end. Choose if a statement is logical, not logical, or if there is not enough information to make a logical reference. If a statement is chosen as logical, think of two sentences used to support your choice.

¹Many of us have had a moment of glory. ²Perhaps it was getting an "A" on a paper we wrote, and the teacher read it aloud and said that it was "really well written." ³Perhaps it was making a winning touchdown, and for a few moments we were carried on the shoulders of our teammates. ⁴Maybe it was saving to buy a shiny red car and driving it to school in front of our envious friends. ⁵The moment was short, but it was sweet.

⁶The author John Updike describes a former small-town high school basketball hero, Harry Angstrom, better known as "Rabbit." ⁷In the opening pages of Updike's well-known American classic, Rabbit Run, Rabbit is twenty-six, married, and coming home from work one March evening when he comes upon some kids playing basketball in an alley. ⁸Something overcomes Rabbit momentarily, and he grabs the ball. ⁹The kids don't know him, but the six-foot-three Rabbit takes over. ¹⁰He shoots and makes a great shot. ¹¹In his business suit, he orders the kids into teams. ¹²He overpowers them at every turn, though, and eventually he just takes them all on. ¹³As he plays his favorite game and feels the once-familiar ball in his hands, he realizes that these kids don't know that he was a local hero. ¹⁴They have never even heard of him. ¹⁵Finally, he realizes that he must go home to his wife; however, for a moment, Updike says, Rabbit felt "liberated."