Try it yourself
Read two paragraphs. Then explain them.
This is the same conversation a student would have. Read the passage below, then tap the mic and talk Verity through your answers — a vague one gets a deeper follow-up, not a pass.
The passage
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
He didn't say any more, but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
Read the passage, then tap the mic below to begin. Verity asks its first question out loud — you won’t see it written down first, the same as a real conversation.
Tap to begin — Verity will start talking