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AP® English Literature and Composition Passage Drill 3, Problem 1. Which of the following can be said of the description in lines 5 through 10?
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- Reading / Audience and Purpose
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- English I EOC Assessment / Dramatic Conventions
- Fiction / Character Development
- English I EOC Assessment / Point of View
- Literary Comprehension / Identifying details about plot, setting, or characterization
- Voice and Tone / Identifying a character's tone or attitude
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Getting' shmoopy with it... It's time to make room in your life for
- 00:06
a brand-new passage. Hit pause so you two can get familiar with one another.
- 00:39
Which of the following can be said of the description in lines 5 through 10?
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And here are the potential answers...
- 00:53
Okay, first things first... let's re-read lines 5 through 10 so we know what we're dealing with...
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"When Amory went to Washington the next week-end he caught some of the spirit of crisis
- 01:03
which changed to repulsion in the Pullman car coming back, for the berths across from
- 01:08
him were occupied by stinking aliens—Greeks, he guessed, or Russians."
- 01:13
"He thought how much easier patriotism had been to a homogeneous race, how much easier
- 01:18
it would have been to fight as the Colonies fought, or as the Confederacy fought."
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"And he did no sleeping that night, but listened to the aliens guffaw and snore while
- 01:26
they filled the car with the heavy scent of latest America."
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Now let's take a gander at the five answer choices. They all refer to Amory's reaction.
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They're not quizzing us about the what-where-why of the scene that's unfolding... rather,
- 01:41
they want to know what Amory thinks about it.
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Well... since the first line is really just setting things up, we can start with the second line...
- 01:51
...and sure enough, we see the phrase "He thought" here... pretty likely this will
- 01:55
be where we find our answer.
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Now... what did Amory think?
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"He thought how much easier patriotism had been to a homogeneous race..."
- 02:03
We don't have to read any further to find our answer.
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Amory is expressing the totally un-PC opinion that it's easier to take pride in your country
- 02:11
when it isn't much of a melting pot...
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...in other words, he'd prefer that any immigrant who has sailed into America would
- 02:18
turn around and... shove off. To put it politely. Anyway, it fits perfectly with C -- "It
- 02:25
reveals Amory's distaste for the immigrant class."
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Remind us to scratch Amory off our Christmas card list.
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