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ACT Reading Prose Fiction Drill 1, Problem 2. Which of the following statements about the circumstances of the narrator's birth is not true?
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- 00:03
Get a Shmoop at this... You probably read this chunk of text already,
- 00:07
but if you need to review it again, just hit pause. We could use a break.
- 00:20
Which of the following statements about the circumstances of the narrator's birth is NOT true?
- 00:25
And here are some potential answers...
- 00:32
Ok, this one's pretty simple. Three of these answers are true, but one of them smells fishier
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- 00:36
than a longshoreman's refrigerator.
- 00:39
Let's go through them one by one and sniff out the culprit.
- 00:43
Is it true that the narrator was born on a Friday?
- 00:47
He says exactly that. So, yeah, A works. Is it also true that he was born at midnight?
- 00:54
Yep, he says that too. How about C? Did superstition dictate that
- 01:02
the narrator would be unlucky in life?
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No doubt, that one's true.
- 01:07
Since all the other answers were true, D is starting to smell pretty fishy. So, is it
- 01:12
true that the narrator's father died shortly after his birth?
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Nope, not at all. The narrator specifically says that his father died before he was born.
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The answer is D.
- 01:23
Sorry, kid. You're in a Dickens novel. Sad stuff just happens.
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