Direction: Answer the following. Choose the best letter.
1. Summarizing is an important skill because it helps you. . . . . . . . EXCEPT ONE.
A. It causes you understanding of the text.
B. Learn to identify irrelevent information or key ideas.
C. Combine detail or examples that support the main ideas/s.
D. Concentrate on the gist or main idea and key words presented in the text.

2. Which of the following is NOT a use of summarizing?
A. Reviewing a long text, speech, or video
B. Writing an abstract
C. Copying notes for a study guide
D. Creating a blog

3. Which of the following in NOT a technique in summarizing a short text?
A. Paraphrase the text
B. Formulate a single sentence that summarizes the whole text.
C. Write a paragraph (or more): begin with the overall summary sentence and follow it with the paragraph summary sentences.
D. Rearrange and rewrite the paragraph to make it clear and concise, to eliminate repetition and relatively minor points, and to provide transitions

4. Which of the following is a technique in summarizing a long text?
A. Outline the text.
B. Formulate a single sentence that summarized the whole text.
C. Write a paragraph (or more): begin with the overall summary sentence and follow it with the paragraph summary sentences.
D. Rearrange and rewrite the paragraph to make it clear and concise, to eliminate repetition and relatively minor points, and to provide transitions.

5. In writing a summary , it should be_______.
A. comprehensive, concise, coherent, and indepentent
B. comprehensive, concise, coherent, and intelligent
C. comprehensive, concise, considerate, and indepentent
D. comprehensive, complicated, coherent, and indepentent