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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.2 Summary
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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.4 Summary. Where would you expect to see this passage?

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Railroad a historic symbol of freedom and hope. Today's underground railroads [People waiting for an underground train]

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well not so much all right check out the passage Harriet Tubman [mumbling]

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all right where would you expect to see this passage and here the

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potential answers... Alright well

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Harriet Tubman a hero of history but where would we read about her outside [Boy shrugging his shoulders]

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wikipedia each month. well this question wants us to look at some basic context [magnifying glass studying a paragraph]

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clues and draw an inference namely who was Harriet Tubman and when did she live [a statue of Harriet Tubman]

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so let's begin with option D it says right in the first line that she was an

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African-American leader and she's not secretly Lenny Kravitz.. All right so

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option D has to go. Options B and C also lead us astray as mentioned several

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times in the passage Harriet Tubman was a hero of the Civil War but unless we're [Iron Man hovering in the air looking down at Captain America]

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talking about the Marvel Comics civil war which were not the Civil War took

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place in the 1860's.. The 1860's were not a part of the 20th

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century, this makes B and C incorrect. Unless of course, Harriet Tubman was a

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time traveler but let's shell that theory for now the only option that [Harriet Tubman in a car time travelling]

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makes any sense is A; Harriet Tubman was a major figure of the Civil War and

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hence books about the Civil War will likely mention her but back to our

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Harriet Tubman time-traveling theory [Children reading Civil War books and Harriet Tubman crashes a car into the table]

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