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Sorry and here's your smoke do you sure Brought to

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you by samuel langhorne clemens not hard to figure out

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why he changed his name to mark twain's Alright check

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the following passage marked twenty biography will not Or in

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your family working in the editorial meeting the political ideas

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guild today So it's a policeman from speaker lettuce abolished

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Howells And i would certainly woman right don't you think

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Writes a lot All right we're done according to the

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biography the reason that mark planes writing stood up for

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the common person wass what And here the pens length

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There are no tricks to help us here We just

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have to remember what we read which we guess isn't

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too much to ask for Ah reading comprehension test let's

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start with choi see which tries to fool us by

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highlighting something that the passage says is true Well we're

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told that complications from the civil war kept twain from

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making a living is a steamboat pilot between had to

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settle for being a world famous author instead even though

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this is all true choice see still doesn't make the

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cut The passage doesn't connect twain's career disappointments with his

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love of the common man remember when we said we

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have to have read the passage to find the right

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answer Yeah well option a proves that's not totally true

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Everybody knows that mark twain was about as successful as

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a writer could possibly be If there were a mount

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rushmore for american writers his face would be chiseled beside

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hemingway faulkner and well everybody else we feel bad for

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the other writers though twins hair would take up half

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the mountain option D seems to think that tween was

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some kind of phony who only wrote about the common

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man because it was a trendy topic we'd love to

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see d say that between space the correct answer is

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b according to the fourth paragraph in the biography mark

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twain's writing focused on the same philosophies Little sammy langhorne

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learned as a child seriously doesn't get much clearer than

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this Many of the political ideas twain wrote about during

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his career were instilled in him as a child You

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can't argue with that and well we could But it

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would be as pointless as trying to get twayne run 00:02:14.625 --> [endTime] a comb through his hair

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