PARCC Reading Main Idea Practice Questions Story 9
9. What is the main idea of this passage?
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9. A: Testing human endurance limits is illustrated in this description of a punishing marathon. It never mentions runners running at their own paces (B). The race's challenges, and many not finishing (C) are details informing the main point. The seventh/last day is not the hardest (D); the fourth and fifth are identified as worst. (Regardless of accuracy, this is also a detail, not the main idea.) One, not every (E), runner is quoted as competing "to find my limits."