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Langan: Reading and Study Skills
Reading and Study Skills, 7/e
John Langan
Textbook Study III: Applying PRWR to a Textbook Chapter

Multiple Choice



1

What individual skills will help you get what you need out of a textbook chapter?
A)Locating definitions, enumerations, and main ideas
B)Reading as fast as possible
C)Memorizing as you read
D)Organization
2

What do you do when previewing the chapter?
A)Look at the title and main headings
B)Skim the chapter and answer questions about what you read
C)Read carefully and try to memorize key words
D)A and B
3

What do you pay attention to in the first reading?
A)Make sure you take notes as you read.
B)Mark or highlight as much as you can in the text.
C)Mark or highlight definitions, examples, and important ideas
D)Make sure you understand everything you read.
4

What should you include in your notes about a chapter?
A)Anything that matches your notes from class, so you have the information twice
B)Major and minor headings
C)Definitions, examples and main ideas
D)B and C
5

What do you do when you recite your notes?
A)Use key words you have placed in the margin of the notes to go over material repeatedly until you have mastered it.
B)Read every sentence in your notes out loud until you can recite them without looking at the paper.
C)Compare the notes with the chapter, and read the appropriate paragraphs from the text aloud.
D)Try to get your notes to rhyme so you will remember them better.
6

What is polyandry?
A)Arranged marriage
B)Marriage of one woman to two or more men
C)Marriage of one man or two or more woman
D)Marriage involving only one man and one woman
7

What is a nuclear family?
A)A family including a husband, wife and children living in a house of their own
B)A family with grandparents in charge of the household
C)A network of relatives that live in separate residences
D)A family with a single parent residing in the household
8

What is homogamy?
A)Marrying someone of the same sex
B)Fear of marriage
C)Marrying someone with the same social attributes
D)Arranged marriage








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