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The text supports more than one reasonable answer.
I see more than one reasonable answer based on the text.
I want to know the best answer.
My students want to know the best answer.
Answering the question will force my students to figure out the meaning of the text.
The question has these helpful (but not absolutely essential) characteristics:
The wording of the question will not confuse my students.
The question does not contain terminology that my students might not understand.
The question does not contain any ambiguous words or phrases for which my students will have various understandings.
My students will understand exactly the part of the story I am asking about.
The question does not contain any unnecessary interpretive assumptions about the story.
The question does not needlessly refer to the author.
Participants in the Basic Leader Training Course learn to write questions that have all the elements of effective interpretive questions.
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