Which two types of questions does QAR distinguish between?

• A. Textually explicit
• B. Textually implicit
• C. Textually explicit and Textually implicit
• D. Textually inferential

Answer: (C)

Two kinds of questions in QAR focus on how the answer relates to the text. One type is textually explicit—the answer is stated directly in the passage, so you can point to exact words or sentences as evidence. The other type is textually implicit—the answer isn’t written outright, so you must read clues in the text and infer the meaning or conclusion. This distinction helps students learn how to locate evidence and decide when to quote directly versus when to synthesize information or read between the lines. The paired categories are textually explicit and textually implicit.