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ACT Reading Prose Fiction Drill 1, Problem 2. Which of the following statements about the circumstances of the narrator's birth is not true?

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Get a Shmoop at this... You probably read this chunk of text already,

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but if you need to review it again, just hit pause. We could use a break.

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Which of the following statements about the circumstances of the narrator's birth is NOT true?

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And here are some potential answers...

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Ok, this one's pretty simple. Three of these answers are true, but one of them smells fishier

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than a longshoreman's refrigerator.

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Let's go through them one by one and sniff out the culprit.

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Is it true that the narrator was born on a Friday?

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He says exactly that. So, yeah, A works. Is it also true that he was born at midnight?

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Yep, he says that too. How about C? Did superstition dictate that

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the narrator would be unlucky in life?

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No doubt, that one's true.

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Since all the other answers were true, D is starting to smell pretty fishy. So, is it

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true that the narrator's father died shortly after his birth?

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Nope, not at all. The narrator specifically says that his father died before he was born.

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The answer is D.

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Sorry, kid. You're in a Dickens novel. Sad stuff just happens.

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