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You look like you could use a shmoopy question, you really do.

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This thing again? Yeah, sorry... but hit pause and review the passage if you could use a refresher...

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To what idea does the phrase "my opinion" in line 36 refer?

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And here are the potential answers...

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Ok, what is this question asking? It wants to know if we understand the text directly preceding this whole "my opinion" business.

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We know that we're supposed to look at what comes before it, because the speaker says

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"deliver my opinion to him on this matter..."

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Uh... what matter? It must have been... whatever he was talking about a second ago...

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...which, if we review the text, was the idea of the king making use of struldbrugs as "wise

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and able counselors." So it sure seems like it's answer D here,

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but let's make sure by taking a quick look at the other choices...

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A can't be right. You can't sequester a group of people... or struldbrugs... from

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a place where they don't exist in the first place.

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B and E are out, because they're... kind of out of left field. They're just not what

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the speaker is talking about right before he hops up onto his... struldbrug soapbox.

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The speaker's love of struldbrugs is clear, but in lines 18 to 19 he talks about how people

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are just... born that way. It isn't a choice. But, just drop it.

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So yeah... our answer is D.

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Now if you'll please excuse us, we're going to untie our tongue...

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