ShmoopTube

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All we are saying is... give Shmoop a chance.

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And on our text...not our singing. We know we suck.

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We know you can't get enough of this passage.

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Press pause and have some more...

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According to the information in lines 14 through 20, the accident that Muir suffered while

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working in a factory...did what?

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And here are the potential answers...

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We can find the answer to this question without

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breaking a sweat.

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All we have to do is go back and read the lines it's talking about, then see which

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answer matches.

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Looks like the key phrase here is "a world unaltered by man or machine."

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There's absolutely nothing in the line that indicates that Muir was permanently incapacitated

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by the accident.

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It'd be kind of hard for him to hike all over Yosemite if this were true.

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(A) is easy to bump from consideration. Unless the factory where Muir worked was run

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by evil cows... which we highly doubt...(C) isn't even worth our time.

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Muir's battle against livestock was connected with the way they affected natural ecosystems...

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and had nothing to do with his factory injury. The passage does make it clear that Muir moved

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from the old homestead to start working at the infamous factory...

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But since this occurred after he left, it couldn't have caused him to leave in the

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first place.

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(D) can't be right. While being in the hospital might allow a

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person some solid writing time...

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The article says that Muir didn't do his nature writing thing until later in his career.

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...which takes (E) off of our list.

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Really, no answer choice but (B) has anything to do with the lines in question.

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The excerpt makes it uber-clear that Muir's factory accident turned him on to nature.

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All those other answers ought to be sentenced to seven years of hard labor for wasting our time.

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