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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by memoirs.

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They're like fancy autobiographies.

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Well, check out the following passage. Anne Frank.

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Which of the following statements best describes the main idea of this passage?

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And here are the potential answers.

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All right, well, artists' greatest legacies are often left

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after they've passed away, and Anne Frank is no different.

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Her widely read book provided a firsthand account

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of the horrors of the Holocaust.

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And seeing how there's nothing funny at all about that

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topic, here's a silly picture of a cat.

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Anyway, we have to determine the central idea of this text

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and we can begin by getting rid of option B.

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Option B is undeniably true.

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However, the passage is primarily about Anne Frank,

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not about the Holocaust in general.

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So, much like the trucker hat phenomenon, yeah, well, B is gone.

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Option C is the next to go.

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The issue with C is that it gives us specific information on how

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Frank's family survived when, in fact, they didn't.

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The passage also focuses on the impact of Frank's diary,

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not her family's experience. Choice C only gives us

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part of a larger picture. We can get rid of option D, too.

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While the article does mention that Frank's writing had been widely

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praised, well, who's to say if she would have had a brilliant career as an author?

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The focus here is on the past, not on an alternate future.

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Believe that stuff on the internet message board.

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Instead, the passage focuses on the impact of Frank's important work.

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So option A is the correct answer.

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We know this subject can be kind of a bummer, so

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here's another picture of a kitten in a bookstore.

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I like pie.

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