Which typology of question does the following question belong to? Imagine you…

Concept: Reading-comprehension and assessment questions are classified by the cognitive skill they test: an Informative (literal) question is answered by a fact stated directly in the given text; an Inferential question asks the reader to draw a conclusion using clues present within the given text; a Cloze question asks the reader to fill a blank left inside the given text; and an Extrapolative question asks the reader to go beyond the given text — to extend, apply, or imagine — and produce new content grounded in, but not confined to, the given material.

Application: This item asks the student to imagine being the story's narrator and compose an original diary entry of about 100 words about their experiences. Answering it means inventing personal content that is not stated anywhere in the given story, guided only by the narrator's situation — it does not ask for a fact already present in the text, a conclusion drawn from textual clues, or a blank to be filled within the text.

Contrast:

• It is not informative, because that category is answered by a fact directly stated in the given text — this task has no such fact to be located.

• It is not inferential, because that category requires drawing a conclusion from clues present within the given text — this task has no textual clue that needs to be interpreted.

• It is not cloze, because that category is built around a blank left in the given text for the reader to fill — this task has no such blank at all.

Result: since the task requires generating original content by extending the narrator's story into an imagined personal account, it is classified as an extrapolative question.