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Question 6 of 10

The following paragraphs are from a personal essay. They have been placed In an incorrect order. Which is the correct order?

l: I learned the lesson again at a crowded movie theater that served tasty burritos in the lobby. I was in the mood for the spicy salsa, and when the cashier asked me if I wanted hot, medium, or mild, I got carried away and yelled at the top of my lungs, "Fire! Give me fire! Fire! Fire!" The next thing I knew there was a stampede of moviegoers rushing to the exits. This proved to me that there is a time and place to yell "fire, and three minutes before showtime at a crowded movie house was neither.

II. Sending summer sandals to my friends in Wyoming for Christmas, wearing animal hides during hunting season, and yelling "fire" at a movie house weren't very good ideas. I've since learned to try to consider the context of my actions before I act

III. I heard the shot echo through the forest. I looked left and right to see who was shooting, from where, and at what. I knew that one step in the wrong direction could put me either in the hospital or in my grave, and I promised myself right then that I'd never again go out for a nature walk during deer-hunting season while wearing ceremonial animal hides. And that was how I learned that there is a time and place for everything.

A. lll, ll, l
B. lll, l, ll
C. l, ll, lll
D. ll, l, lll​

Answer 1

Answer: B: III, I, II

Step-by-step explanation:

Paragraph III makes the most sense because it introduces the topic of "learning a time and place for everything". The details in this paragraph make it seem like an opening.

Paragraph I seems like the next choice since it discusses learning a lesson "again". Although a different circumstance and this time at a movie theater, it references the correct timing by saying the time to yell fire is not at the movie theater.

Paragraph III is the closer because it references both hunting and fire, which means that the reader must have learned about these events beforehand.