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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 3.4 Detail. Where was Benedict Arnold born?
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- 00:00
[ musical flourish ]
- 00:03
And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by Benedict Arnold.
- 00:07
He's no American hero, but he's always welcome for brunch.
- 00:11
Yeah. Those are good.
- 00:12
All right, check out the following passage.
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- 00:14
[ mumbles ]
- 00:22
[ mumbling continues ]
- 00:26
All right, where was Benedict Arnold born?
- 00:29
All right, and here are the potential answers. Oh, boy, this is an easy one.
- 00:32
Answers B and D are tempting because we know
- 00:34
Benedict Arnold defected to the British.
- 00:36
But Benedict didn't turn his coat over homesickness,
- 00:39
so we can, uh, eliminate both answers.
- 00:43
Answer A seems familiar to us because so many
- 00:45
revolutionary heroes were born there.
- 00:48
But after rereading the passage, we can give answer A
- 00:51
its marching orders... Bye.
- 00:53
All right, well, that leaves us with answer C as our correct answer.
- 00:56
It's hidden right here in the second sentence of the paragraph.
- 00:59
Yeah, hidden. "Born in Connecticut."
- 01:01
That reminds us of a show we pitched to ABC about
- 01:03
Benedict Arnold many years ago.
- 01:06
Well, not surprisingly, the network decided to go in a different direction.
- 01:12
[ grunt ]
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