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AP English Language and Composition 5.5 Passage Drill. Which of the following is suggested by the speaker?

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English Language

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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour Brought to you

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by good and evil Maybe take a turn on someone

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else's Shoulders would you okay moving on Alright We're reading

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about floss being good or evil Evolution is um universe

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boundless possibilities religion primitive mind pre signed a scope in

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brett elation Okay which of the following is suggested by

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the speaker and hear the potential answers like notions You

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interesting on boy Well break out your scuba gear were

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about to plunge it Some deep thoughts All right Well

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let's begin by nixing option A speaker does a lot

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of talking about notions of good and evil and how

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philosophers should ignore him But he never claims of society's

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Morals were created by just a few people man What

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would have been like to be on that committee option

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He uses some of the words the speaker uses but

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it doesn't actually touch on any of his ideas He

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says that philosophers auto ignore ideas of faith and good

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in this Makes it sound like our destiny is somehow

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decided by our moral values Well if the speaker thought

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this were true then telling philosophers to ignore both things

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would be an apocalyptic plot or the of a supervillain

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We'll give him the benefit of the doubt and move

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on D doesn't make the cut either This whole essay

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is basically the speaker telling modern scholars that they're still

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way too concerned with notions of good and evil There'd

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be no reason for him to write this essay if

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he thought modern scholars had it all figured out The

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statement cancels out the essays reason for being and there's

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nothing more depressing than that option c is pretty close

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The speaker says material success is partly responsible for people

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being too confident about their ability to control the world

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but he doesn't say that rich people think the world

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is fundamentally good though things have to look a little

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rosier when you're sitting on the deck of your yacht

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All right well choice b is the way to go

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The speaker directly says that it's people who are not

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on the quest for happiness that find it most In

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that case we would like to announce to the universe

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that we're definitely not trying to be happy

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