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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 4.2 Summary. The main purpose of this passage is to...what?


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00:01

We speak student!

00:04

[ musical flourish ]

00:07

And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the Cold War.

00:11

We better bring a jacket for this one.

00:13

Check out the following passage.

00:14

[ mumbles ]

00:26

Okay, well, the main purpose of this passage is to... what?

00:29

And here are the potential answers.

00:31

[ mumbles ]

00:34

All right, in Soviet Russia, paragraph summarizes you.

00:37

Yeah. [ mumbles ]

00:40

Unfortunately, we're not in Soviet Russia, so we've gotta do the work here.

00:44

This passage gives us a lot of specific information about

00:46

a point in time in which the U.S. and Russia, well,

00:49

nearly blew ourselves up. Yep.

00:51

We almost did.

00:52

As for our answer choices, they mainly discuss things that the passage is not about.

00:57

We can begin by getting rid of option D.

01:00

The passage is not specifically about the Kennedy administration.

01:04

He was president during the incident, but that's not the important point here.

01:07

Notice how there's no mention of the rest of Kennedy's legacy?

01:10

Like, uh, say his vow to put a man on the moon? Yeah.

01:14

[ singing ] If you believe. [ normal voice ] Yeah, like that.

01:16

Option C can go, too.

01:18

The passage isn't a subjective criticism of

01:21

the Soviet Union's nuclear program.

01:23

In fact, the tone of the passage is pretty objective in laying out the facts.

01:27

It implies that the policies of both the Soviets and the Americans

01:29

pushed the world to the brink of war and everyone was pointing fingers at each other.

01:33

Option B is a bit trickier because, obviously, the passage is about the Cold War.

01:38

However, it's not a general history of the Cold War. It's about a single specific event.

01:43

Talking about a young Elvis doesn't mean we're talking about his entire career, right?

01:47

Which leaves us with option A.

01:48

The event in question is right in the first sentence of the passage -

01:52

the Cuban Missile Crisis.

01:53

Now if only solving a crisis was as easy as solving this question.

01:57

We typically enjoy sequels, but, uh,

01:59

we think we'll pass on Cold War II: The Revenge.

02:03

[ siren ]

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