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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by radiocarbon dating. What lonely archaeologists

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do on a Friday night.

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All of the following questions could be answered explicitly on the basis of the information

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given in these two passages EXCEPT...what?

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Here's the secret to acing this question: go through each of the choices and ask,

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"Can I answer this without guessing or -- God forbid -- resorting to Wikipedia?"

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If the answer is no, then we're good to go. Let's get started...

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(A). Yeah -- for whatever reason, the author tells us the time of the museum's opening

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ceremony in lines 5-8.

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Choice (A) is wrong.

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Lines 66-67 tell us all about radiocarbon dating.

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Choice (B) is a no-go.

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Lines 54-56 will tell you exactly were these landmarks were first established, so (E) is off.

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All you have to do to know that choice (C) is wrong is to take a glance at lines 28-30.

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The museum does, in fact, discuss the effects of disease on American Indians, making (C)

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wrong as well. If somebody asked us this question about Dena

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Dincauze's <<din-causes>> contributions to the museum we'd get it totally wrong,

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because neither passage talks about it.

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Which makes choice (D) the right answer.

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Sometimes wrong feels so right...

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