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ACT Reading 1.6 Prose Fiction 259 Views
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ACT Reading 1.6 Prose Fiction. What happens to the caul with which the narrator is born?
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- 00:03
Holy Shmoop, Batman... we have another question for you...
- 00:06
You might've read this already, but just hit pause if you want to check it out again...
- 00:30
What happens to the caul with which the narrator is born?
- 00:35
And here are some potential answers...
- 00:40
If we don't remember the answer to this one, all we've got to do is go back and
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- 00:43
read through the passage quickly.
- 00:46
We have to make sure we read thoroughly, though, because there might be some tricky choices here.
- 00:53
If we found this sentence...
- 00:55
Then we know that the answer has to be A. It outright says that an old lady won the
- 01:01
caul, so there you go, you're done!
- 01:05
Let's zoom through the other answers, though,just to see why they're wrong.
- 01:11
B might fool us because the caul was once advertised and not sold.
- 01:16
The lady came along a few years later and bought it, though, so B is wrong.
- 01:20
C is just totally incorrect. The passage never says anything about the mother keeping it.
- 01:26
D is another tricky one, because an attorney did almost buy it.
- 01:31
So, there you have it. A it is. As in "Are you wondering what a caul is?"
- 01:37
There, think about that for the rest of the day.
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