The Virginia Standards of Learning writing tests for elementary, middle and high school require students to make logical inferences using evidence to support their assertions.  Here's a practice sample from the end-of-course writing test that uses contrasting images from The Library of Congress' Prints and Photograph collections. See more practice examples here that pair fiction samples with nonfiction text and, as the website notes, "offer a series of text-dependent questions, vocabulary activities, writing assignments and opportunities for research."