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ACT Aspire Reading: Identifying the Main Idea of a Biographical Passage 3 Views


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This excerpt from the biography is primarily concerned with describing Lewis Carroll's:


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Oh people lucky you We have another one of these

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long paragraph multi paragraph things for you to analyze and

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read Okay this one is on charles dodgson his biography

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better known as lewis carroll the guy who wrote alice's

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adventures in wonderland Okay question one This excerpt from the

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biography is primarily concerned with describing lewis carroll's what Well

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i think about this Carol's parents a an interest see

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are part of his boyhood So this question asked us

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to make the distinction between overall main idea and supporting

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ideas Carole's friends are not mentioned at all except for

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the ones that he found in the mud they're playing

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around So the answer is b It's ah really about 00:00:50.988 --> [endTime] his boyhood that's it

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