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Inferring Questions: Exercise 2 - Identifying sentences that lead to inferences
Instructions: Find one of the sentences that leads to the given inference and click
on it. All the sentences that lead to the inference will then light up. Scroll down if you
do not see the Answer box.
This passage was adapted from The Diary of Retired U.S. Army Major George Small,
a prisoner of war during World War II in the Philippines and Japan from April 9, 1942 until
September 8, 1945.