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Which of the following sentences provides the best description of the events in the passage?


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All right A c t reading aspiring shmoop for people

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This is the doc we're going to analyze here Passage

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from wilkie collins eighteen seventy seven novella mrs saint in

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the ghost Let's do a quick skin We're going to

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need this skin toe last for ten questions So skimming

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skimming good No really It's kim that you can hit

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pause Okay Well what do you think Which of the

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following sentences provides the best description of the events in

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the passage Well a century before stephen king wilkie collins

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showed us that creepy things happen when we play in

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a gn familiar territory Poor little lucy learned this lesson

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the hard way when she's frightened by a mysterious woman

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while playing in kensington gardens Well the first two sentences

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their choices a and b are both true but neither

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encompass the whole passage Furthermore while mr rayburn is devoted

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to lucy well he never actually plays with her At

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least in this passage Is he a good parent or

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not Well instead he kicks back with the newspaper while

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his daughter scopes out territory Yeah So the answer is

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d right there Mr Rayburn and lucy visit kensington gardens

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where lucy becomes frightened Yeah really generic Really general Hard

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to be wrong with that one That's it It's deep 00:01:25.478 --> [endTime] No

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