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AP English Literature and Composition 1.7 Passage Drill 2. Inferring from the passage, with which of the following statements would the speaker most likely disagree?

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Oh give me a home... where the robeefalo roam... Pause. Review. You know the drill.

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Inferring from the passage, with which of the following statements would the speaker

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most likely disagree? And here are the potential answers...

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This is one of those questions that would be so much easier to answer if we were good

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buddies with the author, and totally understood the way he thinks.

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Unfortunately, we haven't had Francis Bacon over for tea in the last couple months...

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...so we're going to have to rely solely on context clues.

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Which of our five answer choices is most likely to start a fight with Mr. Bacon?

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"Friendship is as powerful as medicine in some cases?"

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In the second paragraph, he rattles off cures for various ills, intimating that... well,

01:01

you may just want to take two doses of friendship and call your doctor in the morning. We can

01:06

cratch A. "Solitude does have its benefits for some

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but can be remarkably harmful?"

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Nah, Bacon agrees with this, too. Remember -- he thinks solitude can be beneficial for

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holy men. Which is one of the main reasons he never invites priests over to participate

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in his raves. "Seeking out friendship may be difficult at

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times, but it is worth the effort involved?"

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Well, our author sure thinks it can be tough for monarchs to make friends. Even if they

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spend some time at Monarch Camp. So C is bogus. "An argument may have an exception and still be valid."

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Yeah -- the whole monarch thing is a perfect example of an exception that doesn't invalidate

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the rest of his argument. So it isn't D either. We only have one choice left, so it had better be E...

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"Man's greatest moral weaknesses are improved by friendship."

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What? Weaknesses improved by friendship? Pshaw. Friends are the bomb!

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Better put your mitts up. Francis Bacon is sizzling...

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