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AP English Literature and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill 7. Which of the following best describes the narrator's feelings about the acquisition of wealth?

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Which of the following BEST describes the narrator's feelings about the acquisition of wealth?

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And here are the potential answers:

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People have some very different feelings about money. Just about everyone likes having it,

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unless you're a Buddhist monk or that baby from the Capital One commercials.

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But how does this narrator feel about the acquisition of money?

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In other words, what does he think about the way money is acquired, or what that says about

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the people who acquire it?

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Does he think it makes people look greedy?

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We should hope not. We like to acquire money.

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The narrator acknowledges the importance of having money, so the desire to acquire it

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must not be a bad thing.

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Do only naturally immoral people want to acquire wealth?

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Eh, pretty much the same thing as A. If this were true, we'd have a lot of very moral,

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starving or dead people lying around.

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C also focuses on morality, and we should have a pretty good idea by now that the narrator

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doesn't think acquiring money has much to do with whether you're a good person or not.

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Is the acquisition of wealth mostly a matter of chance?

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Well, yeah. According to our narrator, anyway. He indicates it can have to do with the family

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you marry into, inheritances you may or may not receive...

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...basically, there are a lot of factors at play in determining whether or not someone

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strikes it rich, and not everyone can be the inventor of Velcro.

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D's our answer.

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Just to wrap things up, E is a bogus option, because the narrator would never dream of

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insinuating that we shouldn't be acquiring wealth.

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In fact, he probably wouldn't even mind if you tipped him for writing this passage.

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Just be sure not to under-tip. You don't want it to be insulting.

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