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ASVAB ELA 1.1 Paragraph Comprehension. Which of the following best describes the main idea of this passage?

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour Brought to you by fireworks Just handle them with

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care Okay hold All right Check the following passage Gunpowder

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blonde jane can anonymous fireworks All right Which of the

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following best describes the main idea of this passage and

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here the potential answers All right Gunpowder plot baby Yeah

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All right Remember remember the fifth of november fourth of

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july Or at least remember to read the paragraph for

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content clues and yeah that's probably betterment not quite as

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catchy Let's give option d a shot The last sentence

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of the passage does mention that the gunpowder plot is

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commemorated with fireworks but a couple of things first off

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it's Not true Second even if it wass it's just

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a little extra detail thrown in at the end It's

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like staying in star wars mainly about bears because they're

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some he walks in it Option b is a little

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better but far from what we're looking for it focuses

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on the history of the plot But is it accurate

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Well english catholics are mentioned in the paragraph but they're

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the ones conspiring to assassinate people unless there was some

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crazy double agent stuff going on This answer doesn't make

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any sense Option sees more of the same The house

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of lords is also mentioned but only because that's where

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one of the conspirators was found the conspirators goal was

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more than wanton destruction He wasn't just some angry beach

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bully paragraph clearly staged with the conspirators were trying to

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dio They were after king james of england so option

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a czar answer next up Fourth of july way knew

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a guy who lost his thumb in a firework accident 00:01:46.846 --> [endTime] does it

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