A town hall meeting looks informal, a room of folding chairs and a microphone passed hand to hand, but the format is doing real work. Anyone present may speak, which means an official cannot simply avoid an uncomfortable question by controlling who is called on. The tradeoff is that the loudest or most persistent voices in the room can crowd out quieter concerns that never reach the microphone at all. Some towns have begun collecting written questions in advance specifically to give the second group a way in that does not depend on standing up in front of a crowd.
Which statement from the passage is best described as the author's opinion rather than a reported fact?
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Correct answer to question 74 (Paragraph Comprehension): The format is doing real work
Method
The first, second, and fourth choices describe observable, checkable facts about the format. The third is the author's own judgment about the format's value, not something offered with evidence.
Updated: November 2026
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