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AP English Language and Composition 2.10 Passage Drill
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In this AP Language and Composition drill question, read the provided passage and infer information based upon footnote two.

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English Language

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[ musical flourish ]

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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by traitors.

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They may be banned from the kingdom, but they can always open a "Traitor Joe's."

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Yeah, like that.

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All right, check out the following passage.

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How many times have we read this? Like 1800 times.

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We're scrolling...

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[ mumbles ]

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Are you incredibly bored reading this?

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No, you're fascinated by the debauchery.

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[ mumbles ]

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All right, well you really wanted to read it again. Go ahead.

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Hurt yourself.

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We can't stop you.

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[ mumbles ]

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And a whole bunch of footnotes.

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Footnotes, footnotes, footnotes.

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Brought to you by Dr. Scholl's.

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Okay, you're done.

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It can be assumed from footnote two that... what?

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And here are the potential answers. [multiple choice answers appear on screen]

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[ mumbles ]

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Okay, and we're done.

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So this question is directing us right to footnote two,

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so let's just go there.

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All right, so let's see.

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So this Varney guy told some fella named Hyde that

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he followed the king because honour

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- spelled with a U, those silly Brits -

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obliged him. But the object of the war was

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against his conscience.

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In other words, his heart wasn't totally into the war,

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but it was his king after all.

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So he kinda had to get in there and

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mix it up anyway. [Varney holding weapon goes to war]

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Then we've got this Lord Spencer writing to his lady.

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Well, "If there could be an expedient found to salve

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the punctilio of honour, I would not continue here an hour."

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All right, well, we're not sure what "punctilio" is,

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but it's probably some form of pasta.

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Sarcasm.

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Anyway, the gist of it is that if Spencer could

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find a way to get around the whole honour thing, [Spencer writing]

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well, he'd be out of there in a New York minute.

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So Varney and Spencer seem to be on the same page, at least.

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Neither is gung-ho about the war, but they're both gonna

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follow the king in spite of their personal feelings because, [Varney and Spener holding weapons go to war]

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well, they're honorable. Stupid honor.

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Huh. All right, well, looking over our answer choices,

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there's no mention of memoirs or religion, so

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B and E are out. We've decided they're coming from the same

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place, so it can't be C. And there's no evidence to support

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D, so that's a no-go, as well.

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So it looks like we're stuck with A -

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Sir Varney and Lord Spencer both enlisted to fight on behalf of the king.

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And, sure enough, that was pretty much our conclusion.

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So answer A it is.

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Or, as the British would probably spell it, "A - U."

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Au.

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