Comprehension passages: fiction

A fiction passage tests whether you can follow a narrative voice and infer what is not said outright. The key skill is separating the narrator's report from a character's thought, and the story's facts from its implications. Example: if a passage says a man 'smiled as he counted the coins' after a funeral, the passage is testing inference — the smile, placed against grief, suggests calculation or relief, and a good answer says so with the quoted detail.