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CAHSEE ELA 4.4 Expository Writing
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CAHSEE ELA: Expository Writing: Drill 4, Problem 4. Using information from the passage, which of the following most accurately describes Zoltar's job?

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CAHSEE ELA: Expository Writing Drill 4, Problem 5. Where are tickets for this event available for purchase?

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CAHSEE ELA 4.2 Expository Writing. Which of the following categories best describes Shmoopapalooza?

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CAHSEE ELA 4.3 Expository Writing. Where is this event located?

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00:03

Things keep getting shmoopier and shmoopier...

00:06

You're probably getting sick of this passage by now, but give this video a pause and look 'er over...

00:16

Where is this event located?

00:18

And here are the potential answers:

00:21

So... what is this question asking?

00:23

Can we read and interpret the content to determine where we go to... get our palooza on?

00:28

The first thing we have to ask ourselves is... where are we likely to find this information?

00:34

Each of the bullet points relates to a particular aspect of the fair...

00:37

...while the beginning and end discuss Shmoopapalooza in general.

00:41

We have to access that common sense datacenter of our brain here...

00:45

...and realize that the basics... where, when, why, et cetera... will probably be covered

00:50

in the opening or closing paragraph. A quick scan of the first paragraph and bingo...

00:55

the word California jumps right out at us.

00:57

Okay, so it has a roundabout way of saying it... but there's probably a small chance

01:01

that they get a lot of California sun... in Rome.

01:05

We should check out the other options though, just to make sure there isn't a better option...

01:09

Rome is completely wrong...

01:11

Zoltar... is that even a place? If we skim the rest of the passage, we'll see that

01:16

it's actually a person. Of sorts.

01:20

So... unless the entire "palooza" takes place inside his mind... we can skip this one.

01:24

Option D is "the advertisement doesn't say."

01:29

Yes, true -- it doesn't come RIGHT out and say, "Shmoopapalooza takes place in

01:33

blah blah blah..." but it DOES still tell us that the fair is in California.

01:37

So B is our best answer.

01:39

As in... "Baron of the bizarre..."

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