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Here’s your shmoop du jour… It’s read and review time, shmoops and shmoopettes…
Which of the following BEST expresses one of the themes in the previous passage?
And here are the potential answers:
Okay, any time we get a question like this that appeals to our understanding of the passage
as a whole…
…it’s really just asking if we can comprehend and interpret what we’re reading.
In other words… it wants to know if we’re zoning out and thinking instead about this
weekend’s fantasy football draft. As long as we read the passage carefully,
we should get that this whole thing… is about love. Awww.
A doesn’t make much sense, because there were really no “wounds”… none that were
mentioned, anyway.
B is a shot in the dark. Unless you consider love a crime, we guess.
And D is a little presumptuous… these people may be old, but they’re not dead yet. So
no, D’s no good either.
This passage is all about love… so our answer is B
As in, “Bungee jumping.”