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From the first three paragraphs, it can be inferred that the author would NOT consider which of the following activities heroic?


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No Okay Next question for your AP English here Just

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rig ailing you with literary love Yeah From the first

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three paragraphs it can be inferred that the author would

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not consider which of the following activities to be you

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know heroic attractive and I'm kidding matching painting this still

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life All right well let's think about it The speaker

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has a peculiar idea of heroism that she embodies through

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the character of Catherine Morland got the rights of Catherine

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Had by nature Nothing heroic about her should prefer cricket

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baseball riding on force and running about the country at

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the age of fourteen Two books are at least books

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of information that was actually a quote live recording on

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Lee Brought to you by Shmoop of her actual statement

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of her writings there The works quoted as being on

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the heroin in training reading list You know both Grey

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Thompson and Shakespeare of course are no light Beach reads

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people their hard So the correct answer here It's e

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reading romantic novels Okay so think about the loser bull

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Well it's a aesthetically based heroism for the author In

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this first section she described Moreland's plane experience which disqualified

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her from being a heroine Just a laments that Katherine

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refuses nursing a dormouse and feeding a canary birds will

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get rid of B which one Apparently normal pastimes for

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girls back in the day Likewise she's considered on heroic

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for failing to play music So get rid of sea

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or sketch her lover Get ready So those must have

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been considered well you know heroic qualities for some reason

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Yeah so that's it Yet the correct answer is E 00:02:15.018 --> [endTime] reading romantic novels a lot

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