summary

A summary keeps the passage's movements and drops its illustrations. A three-movement passage — what was taken in, how it was sorted, and where each part went — has a summary with all three; the figure quoted inside one movement (ninety bicycles, four drawers) is an example, and a summary drops its examples rather than quoting one as the whole thing. Two shapes ask for it. A best summary question offers condensed statements, most wrong ones being one movement dressed as the whole or a claim the passage never makes; a cut to one sentence question asks which sentence should survive, and the answer is the one that still holds both ends of the passage. The test is always the same: read your candidate against the passage and ask what it leaves out. A summary that loses a movement is too narrow; one that adds a claim the passage never made has gone beyond the text.