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Shmoop. It was the best of questions; it was the worst of questions...

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No worries if you need to skim the passage again... that's what pause buttons are for.

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According to the passage, all of the following statements about "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

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are true EXCEPT...what?

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Here are the potential answers...

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Answering this question takes a little fact-checking—you

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know, that thing you do to be super-extra sure about your answer.

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The second-to-last paragraph lets us know just how important "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

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became to a whole bunch of young people...

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So (A) is a definite no.

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Come on, we'd have to be living under a rock to not know that the song made Cobain

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wildly popular.

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(B) is wrong for sure. The fourth paragraph makes a solid case for

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Nirvana moving purposely into the mainstream, making (C) wrong as well.

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Sadly, choice (E) is true, as the article points out in the fifth paragraph... so this

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one can't be it either.

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Looks like (D) is the right answer. If we zero in on line 15, we see that bands in the

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early days of the Seattle scene saw being "authentic" as the opposite of "getting

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popular."

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Hipsters everywhere still agree.

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