Inference Quiz Lesson 10

What makes tactile maps different from visual maps?

• Tactile maps use symbols to describe what is on them.

• Tactile maps are designed to be understood through touch.

• Tactile maps have been used for a long period of time.

• Tactile maps are made to help people understand the world.

Read the sentence from paragraph 2 of the text

"In this way, users can create a mental picture of what the map describes."

Which detail from the paragraph 1 gives the best context clue for the meaning of mental?

• "... they give an actual image or picture of a place..."

• "...meant to help people who are blind or visually impaired..."

• "...they can create an image in their minds of what the map describes..."

• "...makes it easier for people with little or no vision to use these maps to explore..."

Which inference is best supported by details in the text?

• Tactile maps could be made by adding tactile features to a visual map.

• Although they work differently, tactile and visual maps have the same purpose.

• Tactile maps will replace visual maps as printers become more advanced.

• Although tactile maps are helpful, understanding them can be very hard.

Read the sentence from paragraph 5 of the text.

Amy Lobben, a researcher who studies maps, has compared the way people use tactile maps to "looking through a soda straw and moving it around the map and trying to figure out the layout of that map."

What does the quotation from Amy Lobben most help the reader to understand?

• How the users of tactile maps read information differently from the users of visual maps.

• How some details about a place are lost when a visual map is made into a tactile map.

• How tactile maps are better than visual maps at communicating some information.

• How visual maps could benefit from including some of the features of tactile maps.

Which detail from paragraph 4 best supports the idea that making a tactile map involves some special challegnes?

• "...it is easier for the people who need tactile maps to get access to them."

• "...visual maps usually have written labels that tell the names of what the map shows."

• "Tactile maps can use Braille lettering to do the same thing...."

• "...there is often not enough space on a tactile map to write out the labels for everything."

Read the sentence from paragraph 4.

Nowadays, with the help of computers and special printers, tactile maps can be made more quickly and cheaply.

What inference can you make about what makes the printers "special"?

• They are designed to print maps with labels and symbols.

• They can print tactile maps faster than visual map printers.

• They are designed to print both visual maps and tactile maps.

• They can print maps with raised features such as bumps and lines.