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ACT Reading 1.7 Prose Fiction. Why does the old woman mentioned in the passage disapprove of sailing?
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- 00:04
Shmoop this one on for size... If you want to review the passage again, just
- 00:07
hit pause. We're not going anywhere.
- 00:22
Why does the old woman mentioned in the passage disapprove of sailing?
- 00:26
And here are some potential answers...
- 00:32
All right, let's go down the list and see what this old lady's problem is.
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- 00:36
Is it A? Is she afraid of drowning?
- 00:38
The old lady does buy a caul, which superstition says prevents drowning, so we won't cross
- 00:42
this one off just yet. B gets a big no. The passage says nada about
- 00:48
her husband dying at sea. Moving on.
- 00:50
Could it be C? Does she think sailors have bad manners?
- 00:54
Nah, she doesn't like them, (and in reality, they probably do have bad manners) but she never says anything about their manners.
- 01:01
OK, how about D? Does the old lady disapprove of "meandering"?
- 01:05
Yeah, she says exactly that. In fact, there's a whole big chunk of text specifically about
- 01:11
how much she hates meandering.
- 01:13
So, we'll go ahead and cross off A, and give the go ahead to D.
- 01:17
D for "Don't you dare meander..."
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