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AP English Literature and Composition 1.7 Passage Drill 3. Lines 74 through 80 indicate all of the following except what?

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00:03

Oh give us a home, where the robeefalo roam...

00:13

If you love this passage so much, why don't you marry it?

00:17

Or, if you're not the marrying type, just pause and review...

00:34

Lines 57 through 60 indicate all of the following EXCEPT... what?

00:39

And here are the potential answers:

00:46

Well, the word "except" is in all caps, so that should send sirens, bells, and factory whistles going off in our heads.

00:55

Anyone have an aspirin? 4 of these 5 answer choices work. There's

00:59

just one rotten egg among them, and we have to... sniff it out.

01:03

Let's look at lines 57 through 60:

01:09

As he walked away it seemed to Amory that the look in his face bore a great resemblance

01:13

to that in Kerry's when he had said good-by under Blair Arch two years before. Amory wondered

01:20

unhappily why he could never go into anything with the primal honesty of those two.

01:24

Okay, now let's take 'em one at a time.

01:27

Does Amory respect but not agree with Burne's conviction?

01:31

Well, yeah. He seems to admire Burne's "primal honesty," but he still can't be on the same

01:36

page with him. So A is NOT our answer.

01:39

Is Amory questioning his mental capacity?

01:42

Uh, no, not at all. He may not agree with Burne's stance, but that's not because he

01:46

can't comprehend what it is.

01:48

It's about conviction, not about intellect.

01:51

So B is our answer.

01:52

But, if we want to make very sure, we can check the last few answer choices...

01:56

...and sure enough, they all go along with our earlier determination about Amory's mindset.

02:01

He DOES view Burne's pacifism as honest...

02:04

...he IS disdainful of his own lack of conviction...

02:08

...and he DOES view himself as dishonest. So yeah, B it is.

02:12

See? These problems are easy, once you strip away all the bells and whistles

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