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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour Check the following passage and yeah we've read this

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right Yeah remember then holding thing about recording We're done

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All right When master thomas offers the author a small

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part of the money that he has earned the author

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feels what And here the potential answers All right so

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tom's offers small part right Like a royalty right Okay

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Well in paragraph one douglas tells us that master thomas

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sometimes gave him six cents out of every six dollars

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that douglas earned It sounds like a bum deal to

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us but we need to know what douglas thought Right

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so option c definitely does not make the cut Master

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thomas might have thought he was being downright progressive but

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douglas didn't think that totally ripping somebody off was well

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all that kind answer b is wrong Teo Yeah douglas

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didn't have a way to make any other money whatsoever

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That doesn't mean he didn't know he was getting the

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short end of a seriously crappy stick All right we

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can also nick's choice A Douglas does say that master

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thomas thought that the six cents would encourage douglas toe

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Work harder however this incentive plan didn't do much to

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inspire douglas go figure Well the correct answer is d

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in paragraph one douglas specifically says that instead of encouraging

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him the six cents had the opposite effect He felt

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like if he was entitled to six cents then he

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was entitled to the whole amount Douglas was like well

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how about six dollars in some basic freedoms while you're 00:01:28.978 --> [endTime] at it

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