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all right Shmoopers we've skimmed and skimmed again the tulipmania wrestle

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down text here and we're skimming it again just pick out a couple of key [text on screen]

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words here and there tulip tulip tulip and let's just get right to the question

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and we'll go hunt for the answer the author mentions the nobles citizens and

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old clothes women 20 through 24 they're mostly why the opportunit Nobles in the

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old like behind you blow alright well the correct answer is C yeah the list

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contains nobles and the rich as well as the not rich chimney sweeps and the like [people dressed in costume]

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well the idea here is to convey that everyone was swept up in tulips [text on screen]

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speculation at the time kind of like the internet bubble of the 90s or the beanie [E.T. next to a computer]

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baby bubble maybe the extent of the list suggests that the mania spread through

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every level of Dutch society even 17th century Dutch buffers caught the bug but

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Charles Mackay left them off his list he was mad because 17th century Dutch [people in costume in a field of tulips]

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shmoop was founded a year too late to help him study for his 17th century

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Dutch SATs sorry pal we just weren't there well the economic bubble did seem

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to spread patriotic sentiment but that sentiment came from pride in a booming [tulips]

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economy meaning that it occurred after the bubble grew so get rid of a the [text on screen]

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description of the Mart's doesn't say that buyers and sellers were anonymous [V for Vendetta mask]

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so get rid of beef in fact the passage suggests that buyers of pricey tulips

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gained a measure of fame like street cred or something like they were smart [text on screen]

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they were hot and hip like living on Internet time a railroad time yeah

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previous bubbles well the passage implies that tulips

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were overpriced across the board not that some varieties were available

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cheaply like the Walmart tulips maybe like that yeah all right well that's [tulips on discount]

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lines 22 through 24 that's where you glean all of it right in here and the

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answer is C illustrate the anonymous nature of greed [text on screen]

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