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PSAT 1.4 Reading Diagnostic. In the fourth paragraph, the author checks his chronometer against the timepieces of other ships in order to...what?


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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by anchors Some ships would achieve

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much more fame and success if it wasn't for these

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things of dragging them down Check the passage happen captain

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snark fall maybe division have god's only few buckets One

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little papa is always angry I'll be with you now

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it's a poor condition favorite time of the bds movement

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chronometer from fourteen days Steamer compromise our way with that

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annoying thing Okay in the fourth paragraph the author checks

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his chronometer against the time pieces of other ships in

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order to what and here in potential answers i mean

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All right how many meters do we really need Oh

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nam inner barometer thermometer tomato meter And now we're throwing

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something called a chronometer into the mix The question is

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why is our narrator checking his chronometer against the time

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pieces of other ships Really that bored Well let's think

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about what this passenger's been talking about Our narrator has

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been pounding it into our skulls that he's surrounded by

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incompetent boobs who can barely tell the north star from

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the moon Well if he's double checking the equipment could

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it be that he doesn't trust the navigator's on board

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his own shift Make sure that everything's on the up

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and up well let's take a look at our answer

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choices option a suggest that the author is demonstrating that

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he had the finest timepiece available at the time Yeah

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probably not He doesn't seem to be in a very

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bragging mood especially not with regard to anything snark related

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and we don't see the word rolex engraved on the

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side of his phenomena are either so we're guessing he's

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probably not in the possession of a luxury item timepiece

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in something We're going to go ahead and trim a

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sales next up See is our author catching his captain

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in a lie and then dismissing him Well yeah but

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it's not the reason He's comparing the timepiece is it's

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just a night A little more than anything He wants

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to get where he's going after that any humiliation he

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can inflict on his crewmates is just gravy What about

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is he finding out the exact location of the snark

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at that moment But i'm not sure why he need

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a chronometer when he could just look at a nearby

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sign Yeah he's not at sea When he checks the

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chronometer he mentions he's in port on the fijian island

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of suva So he really doesn't need some fancy shmancy

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device to tell him where he is We're gonna make

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me walk the plank The correct answer is b is

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ensuring that his navigational readings are accurate That pretty much

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aligned with the conclusion we came to despite all the

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petty wisecracks about his idiot crew members are narrator just

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wants to do his job well and not spend the

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rest of his life going in circles in the middle 00:02:43.333 --> [endTime] of the ocean

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