MASSACHUSETTS TESTS FOR EDUCATOR LICENSURE (MTEL)
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Information, Interactive Practice Exercises, and Practice Tests 1
Objective: Identify and analyze relationships among ideas. The correct answer is (a). Choice (b) is stated at the beginning of paragraph 3, but the fact that Salem was a trading center repeats the original idea rather than suggesting how it was caused. Choices (c) and (d) both represent specific facts that support the idea that Salem was more industrialized, but they do not represent the whole picture. Choice (a) pulls together the various supporting ideas presented in the passage to this point, and integrates them into the inference intended by the author.