Each Question Below Is a Plan for a Paragraph

question 32

Multiple Choice

Each question below is a plan for a paragraph. The details are not in the correct order. Select the letter of the answer that numbers the details in the proper sequence
-A childhood love of performing music launched rocker and songwriter Lenny Kravitz on the path to stardom.
_____ When his family moved to Los Angeles in 1974, ten-year-old Lenny won a place in the California Boys Choir and taught himself to play many instruments.
_____ As a teen, he studied music at the Berkeley Hills School and created the dramatic look for which he is now famous.
_____ Before he was ten, he had convinced his parents to take him to concerts by James Brown, Duke Ellington, and the Jackson 5.
_____ Lenny and his father produced his first album, Let Love Rule, which won him a Virgin Records contract and huge numbers of fans.
____ As a toddler in Brooklyn, New York, Lenny made his own drum set out of pots and pans.

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

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