The Woodstock Music and Art Fair—better known to its participants and to history simply as “Woodstock”—should have been a colossal failure. 2) Just a month prior to its August 15, 1969 opening, the fair’s organizers were informed by the council of Wallkill, New York, that permission to hold the festival was withdrawn. 3) Amazingly, not only was a new site found, but word spread to the public of the fair’s new location. 4) At the new site, fences that were supposed to facilitate ticket collection never materialized, and all attempts at gathering tickets were abandoned. 5) Crowd estimates of 30,000 kept rising; by the end of the three days, some estimated the crowd at 500,000. 6) Then, on opening night, it began to rain. 7) Off and on, throughout all three days, huge summer storms rolled over the gathering. 8) In spite of these problems, most people think of Woodstock not only as a fond memory but as the defining moment for an entire generation. *
(i) Which of the following numbered sentences of the passage best represents an opinion rather than a fact?
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A common question seen in CAT and other MBA entrances in the RC section is the choice of an appropriate title. Questions that ask you to provide a title for the passage require you to assume the role of the author & to experience what he or she may have felt or wanted to convey when writing the passage.In order to do that, you’ll need to read the passage carefully and pick up on key words and specific writing styles,only then will you be able to ascertain whether the author is frustrated, annoyed, perplexed, supportive, etc., and from that information you’ll be able to quickly predict what the author might say next and what an appropriate title may be.
For questions that ask you to provide a title of a reading passage, be sure to look at the passage as a whole. Most importantly, don’t choose an answer choice just because it reiterates a single fact explicitly stated in the passage. A title is meant to encompass the entire meaning of a reading passage, and not just a single point.