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

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

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

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

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And here are the potential answers:

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

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

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

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Let's look at lines 57 through 60:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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page with him. So A is NOT our answer.

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Is Amory questioning his mental capacity?

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

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can't comprehend what it is.

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It's about conviction, not about intellect.

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So B is our answer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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