<p>on CR, some of the questions tend to fall into the following type:</p>
<p>Overall, the tone of the passage/author is:</p>
<p>A) resentful
B) tolerant
C) skeptical
D) ambivalent
E) hostile</p>
<p>**the answer choices are made up*</p>
<p>How do you attack these types of questions? what is your strategy? Thanks</p>
<ol>
<li>Read the passage
<ol>
<li>Ask yourself, “What is the authors tone?”</li>
<li>Pick the corresponding answer.</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>
<p>Usually you can tell a tone from the word choices in the passage.
When you narrow it down to two answer choices (usually a moderate and a polar choice), pick the moderate one.</p>