Read the excerpt from “George Washington."
Born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family, [George Washington] learned the morals, manners, and body of knowledge requisite for an 18th century Virginia gentleman.
Which provides the best objective summary of this sentence?
A - George Washington was raised to be a gentleman. This is important because otherwise he could not have become the first president of the United States.
B - George Washington was born in 1732 and raised according to the standards set forth for Virginia gentlemen of the time period.
C - George Washington was born into a Virginia planter family and taught the morals, manners, and body of knowledge requisite for an eighteenth-century Virginia gentleman.
D - George Washington was born in 1732. He was born into a planter family that lived in Virginia.