Each Question Below Is a Plan for a Narrative Paragraph

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Multiple Choice

Each question below is a plan for a narrative paragraph. The events in the plans are not in the correct chronological order. For each plan, select the answer that numbers the events in the proper time sequence. Physical education instructor James Naismith invented the game of basketball in 1891.
____ Thinking of how these ancient games required balls that went through holes, he rounded up two peach baskets and a soccer ball.
____ In December 1891, the director of the YMCA School where Naismith worked asked him to come up with a game that would occupy a class of rowdy students.
____ Then, he divided his class of eighteen into two teams of nine players each, taught them to throw the soccer ball into the peach basket.
____ Naismith, needing a game that could be played indoors in a relatively small space, remembered a description of Ollamalitzli and Ulama, Aztec and Mayan ball games he had read about in a magazine.
____ He nailed the peach baskets to the lower railing of the gym balcony.

• A) 3, 4, 5, 1, 4
• B) 1, 3, 4, 5, 2
• C) 3, 1, 5, 2, 4

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