Supporting Details Quiz

Agnes Duran

Answer the supporting-detail questions that follow the passage.

(1)Insomniacs may envy those who have no problem sleeping.(2)However, too much sleep is also a sleep disorder.(3)There are a couple of major causes of sleeping too much.(4)One major cause of this problem is apnea, a condition associated with breathing difficulties during the night.(5)In severe cases, the victim actually stops breathing after falling asleep.(6)When the level of carbon dioxide in the blood rises to a certain point, apnea sufferers are spurred to a state of arousal just short of waking consciousness.(7)Because this can happen hundreds of times in a night, apnea patients typically feel exhausted and fall asleep repeatedly the next day.(8)Another cause of too much sleep is narcolepsy, a hereditary condition that causes victims to nod off without warning in the middle of a conversation or other alert activity.(9)Narcoleptics will often experience a sudden loss of muscle tone upon expression of any sort of emotion.(10)A joke, anger, sexual stimulation--all bring on a feeling of weakness.(11)Another symptom of the disorder is immediate entry into REM sleep, a state which produces frightening hallucinatios that are in fact dreams that the narcoleptic experiences while still partly awake.................. In general, the major supporting details of the passage are:

Your answer:
causes of apnea
symtoms of narcolepsy
causes of getting too much sleep
types of insomniacs

Specifically, the major details are

Your answer:
a sudden loss of muscle tone, a feeling of weakness, immediate entry into REM sleep
insomnia and sleeping too much
apnea and narcolepsy
exhaustion and repeated falling asleep during the day

Sentence 8 provides

Your answer:
a major detail
a minor detail
the topic sentence

Sentence 11 provides

Your answer:
a major detail
a minor detail
the topic sentence

According to the passage, apnea patients often fall asleep during the day

Your answer:
after they experience REM sleep
because they have not slept at all at night
when they experience any sort of emotion
because of exhaustion from poor quality sleep

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