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Reading Long Passages: Drill 2, Problem 5

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00:03

Friends, Shmoopers, countrymen, lend us your ears...

00:08

Surprise, surprise...the prodigal passage returns. Just pause if you haven't gotten

00:11

enough of it.

00:47

It is evident from the narrator's statement about Aunt Georgiana in lines 40 through 44

00:52

that... what?

00:54

And here are the potential answers...

00:59

In lines 40 through 44, the narrator compares

01:02

Aunt Georgiana to daredevil explorers who visit places where they lose body parts and

01:07

catch serious illnesses.

01:08

Ooh, sounds like fun.

01:10

He doesn't say anything about his Aunt having frostbite like one of these explorers might.

01:14

So (B) is totally wrong.

01:15

He isn't saying that she actually travels a lot. In fact, the rest of passage makes

01:19

it seem like she hasn't left the vicinity of the farm in a long, long time.

01:23

Therefore (A) isn't right either. Are they serious about this one? He doesn't

01:27

say he wishes his life were more like hers...

01:30

And we can't say we blame him for that one. There's no way (D) is correct.

01:34

The narrator specifically says that he looks on his aunt with "awe and respect," right?

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This lets us know that he understands the significance of her hard-core life.

01:44

Armed with that information, we can get choice (E) out of our faces.

01:47

That leaves us with answer (C).

01:49

If the narrator is viewing his aunt with "awe and respect," we know that he is viewing

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her as a person who's lived a life much different from his own.

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Combine that with this description of extreme explorers--whose lives make your average Bostonian's

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look like child's play--and we're sure as sure can be that (C) is the correct answer.

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Go get em', Auntie G.

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