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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.2 Inference
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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.3 Inference
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TSI Reading: Making Inferences about the Great Fludd 22 Views


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Description:

This passage implies that Robert Fludd

(A)was a very well-educated man
(B)disliked social events
(C)did not have time for his family
(D)preferred practical knowledge


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Okay see reading shmoop er's I've got some more stuff

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here for your interesting paragraph on bob flood Rob lowe

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is a respected english physician in sixteen hundred were king

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james of england right wide and top of the range

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from magic to religion Explain how his own step lively

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about god and write with humans and nature He created

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several encyclopedias Housing rendition is tracked hunger so proud of

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him way rejecting military maneuvers Its most famous work publican

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five volumes shows how human life on earth god damn

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in co exist All right what's the passage imply here's

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our question let's see floods knowledge of pretty much every

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topic Yeah Wrote encyclopedias for crying out loud Well they

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help us in for that He was a very well

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educated man If he were alive today he might have

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done a black turtleneck and invented you know flood a

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pdr flood alert flood book er you know one of

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those although it may or may not have been true

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that flood wasn't the most social or family or in

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a guy There is no evidence in the text to

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lead us to any of those inferences the man rode

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on both practical and abstract concepts But if you have

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a favorite well it isn't indicated in the passage so

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that's it The answer is a He was a very

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well educated man and that's it We're shmoop

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