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Description:
This passage implies that Joe Grimaldi's childhood was
(A)unbearable
(B)difficult
(C)sheltered
(D)traditional
Transcript
- 00:02
Let's just get down to the question here This passage
- 00:04
implies that joe graham all these childhood wass what All
- 00:10
right Well let's go The paragraph Born into a theatrical
- 00:12
family in seventeen seventy eight joe grimaldi was theater superstar
- 00:15
who rose to national prominence eighteen oh six Playing a
Full Transcript
- 00:17
clown in the pantomime a mother goose tutored by his
- 00:20
father just sepi Joe's unique comic espn developing when he
- 00:23
minutes for experience on stage the age of two at
- 00:25
age nine job became a family principal breadwinner He spent
- 00:27
the remainder of his childhood running between performances Okay so
- 00:30
what does this mean While the details in the text
- 00:33
acting at the age of two and supporting his family
- 00:35
age of nine help us in for that Joe had
- 00:37
it pretty rough as a kid like what were you
- 00:39
doing at nine So be is the answer difficult passage
- 00:43
could go on into true hollywood story territory after the
- 00:46
excerpt but we could only respond to what we're given
- 00:49
it's fair to assume that joe had a financially challenging
- 00:51
childhood but calling it unbearable is a stretch on supported
- 00:54
by the evidence like that be too much it's what
- 00:56
you know hollywood reporter would say well still supporting a
- 00:59
family at an age when most kids can barely kick
- 01:01
soccer ball is no easy task and tells us little
- 01:03
joe's childhood was neither sheltered nor traditional So that's it 00:01:07.227 --> [endTime] It's b it's Difficult It's smoked
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