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Detail questions follow the line-number questions in that you can usually get them right without fully absorbing the entire passage. These are also keyword questions, where you skim the passage for keywords from the question. In this example, the passage is a single paragraph, so the keyword approach isn’t needed, but on the full-length passages, it makes a huge difference.

According to the passage, in what way does the dancing mouse not have a weakness?

Cover them answers. In what way do you think the dancing mouse is superior? (Never mind how that sounds.) Reread the paragraph and focus on its abilities. In a full-length passage, you’d skim for the keyword “weakness.”

Seems that the mouse only has weakness, but it’s tireless in dancing. Keep that in mind now, and cross off the wrong answers:

(A) endurance

(B) muscle strength

(C) visual acuity

(D) tenacity

Did you cross off Choices (B), (C), and (D)? They’re so impossible that it has to be Choice (A). Here’s the process:

(A)	endurance	Place a dot. “Endurance” is in the ballpark of “tireless.”
(B)	muscle strength	Cross this off: It has nothing to do with “tireless.”
(C)	visual acuity	Cross this off: It’s not even close (though the passage mentions the mouse’s eyes, don’t misinterpret this).
(D)	tenacity	Cross this off: Tenacity means “ability to cling,” and though it may relate to “tireless,” the passage refers to dancing, not clinging.

The word “tireless” by itself could match “tenacity,” like when you’re clinging to the handles of a jet ski. Be sure to keep the context in mind when checking the answer choices.