CR Questions -- confusing!!

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<p>This is a level 1 question.. lol. I don't understand how the answer is E and not C.</p>

<p>Since the scientists believe "truth is only what can be experimentally proved," wouldn't it be logical to assume that they would object to a book recounting the occurrence of a spiritual enlightenment since that type of experience cannot be scientifically proved?</p>

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<p>Second question:
Excerpt:
"Caroline Yip and Marcella Ahn had a history. They had both lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in their twenties, and for several years they had been the best of friends -- inseparable, really."</p>

<p>Question: The word <code>history</code> refers to a:
(b)long-standing and noteworthy relationship
(d)branch of knowledge focused on the past</p>

<p>I chose D but the answer is B. Isn't long-standing too strong of a word? Their relationship only lasted for "several years".</p>

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<p>22) I chose A but the answer is E.
I feel the author sounds more dismissive than skeptical, he even mentions that such a claim is a "recipe for anarchy". How is that skeptical?? What am I missing??</p>

<p>23) This question just totally confused me. Answer is E.</p>

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<p>Haha objectivity doesn’t mean that they object; it means it holds the same value for all the viewers. The scientists think that science is the only truth so they’ll hold what cannot be scientifically proven in skepticism.

Several years is pretty long. There’s no minimum length of time for something to be considered long standing. D is clearly irrelevant.</p>

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the author transitions in line 35 “But, of course,…” and then later in lines 40-41, he says “the genius of his rhetoric…” lines 44-45 "immune to scholarly skepticism.
To have been dismissed would’ve required him to continue on with the claim of its being a “recipe for anarchy.”</p>

<p>23: did you choose A? BCD don’t make sense at all, and A could sound right but he actually says that all Americans can come together and be a chorus instead of a cacophony. The POE allows one to arrive at E; the author even mentions that it provides a “sacred place above all political battle lines” --not something a lot of political things enjoy (truth be told).</p>

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<p>Thanks for the explanations :)! They all make sense now.</p>