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We have an unshmoopy question with your name all over it...

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First hit pause and review this passage. It hasn't changed since you read it last, but...

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it might help to review.

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Where would be the BEST place to get information about the history of newspapers in America?

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And here are the potential answers...

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Uh oh. Looking over these answer choices, we can see some stuff that doesn't appear

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to be mentioned in the passage itself...

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...this question isn't going to ask us to think, is it?

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Yeah, but just a little bit. It won't be too painful, we swear.

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All that's needed is a little common sense.

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The New York Times would be great for current events, but not for the history of newspapers.

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59 BC was a little... before our time. So naturally, it was before the time of newspapers as well.

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And an encyclopedia article would mostly just be names of newspapers and numbers of readers.

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However, an article in an academic journal would probably have a lot to say about the

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history of the American paper.

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We had to use our brains for this one, but our answer is definitely C.

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As in, "Cranium-ache."

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