ShmoopTube

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You can't handle the shmoop...

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We know you just read this, but... hit pause and read it again. It won't kill you.

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All of the following are true of struldbrugs EXCEPT that... what?

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And here are the potential answers...

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This question is testing two things... One -- our powers of observation...

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...and two -- our ability to recognize the word "EXCEPT," and realize it means we're

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looking for the answer choice that doesn't hold true.

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The evil test-makers are just hoping you'll spot something in the passage that matches

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something in one of the bogus answers, fill in the bubble excitedly and move on.

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That "except" word is a biggie. Okay, so... in that case, all we have to do

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is look through the passage for each answer choice, and decide which is the odd one out

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by process of elimination.

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As it turns out, we could certainly cross off answers A, B, C and E...

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...but if we noticed line 18, which that says that, "at five and forty it grew coal black"...

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...we don't even have to bother hunting down the decoys.

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Answer D suggests the mark turns blue at this age, and we know that's a bald-faced lie.

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What -- do they think we've never hung out with a 45-year-old struldbrug before?

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