Deffinitely not passive. Note the lack of an active transformation:

*We unquestioned the information gathered from a book.

But I can see why some people would leap to the conclusion that it's a
passive construction. Substitute "questioned," and you have a regular
passive.

On 05/09/10 15:10, Edgar Schuster wrote:
> I enjoyed Pullman's article very much and thought it was on the money.
>  White himself admitted that he did not  know much about his subject
> matter.  In 1957, he wrote, "I felt uneasy at posing as an expert on
> rhetoric, when the truth is I write by ear, always with difficulty and
> seldom with any exact notion of what is taking place under the hood."
> On another matter, would readers please tell me whether they would
> consider the following sentence passive:
> 
> The information gathered from a book was unquestioned.
> 
> The sentence comes from Richard Rodriguez.  He is talking about his
> early reading experiences in elementary school.
> Thanks,
> 
> Ed S
> 

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