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SAT Reading Long Passages Drill 1, Problem 6 

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And here's another shmoop e question for you The acid

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Review Time pause this puppy and give it a once

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over The contrast that the author describes in the last

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two paragraphs of the Passage is what And here the

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potential answers all about contrast Theo Second Last Paragraph explores

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what the author calls the triumph of teen spirit both

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in its importance and popularity and is a big deal

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We have the Sun shmoop music read All about it

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Way were wondering what that smell Waas The last paragraph

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however describes the terrible toll this success eventually took on

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Cobain Personally this one's actually pretty easy because A B

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C and E aren't even the same ballpark Different zone

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He is the only answer that even remotely gets across

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the contrasting ideas of the last two paragraphs Here's hoping

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the other answers have a better showing the next go

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around way Miss you Kurt Oh right one

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