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Here's your shmoop du jour...

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Maybe this passage changed since the last time you read it.

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Better pause and review to make sure...

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To what is war being compared in line 2?

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And here are the potential answers...

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We already know that war is good for absolutely nothing... thanks, Edwin Starr...

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...but what is it being compared to here?

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Let's familiarize ourselves with line 2:

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"...war rolled swiftly up the beach and washed the sands where Princeton played..."

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Which is why you should never go to the beach at high tide. You never know when you're going

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to wind up with a bucketful of war in your swim trunks.

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Well... what would "roll swiftly up the beach" and "wash the sand?"

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Water, right? Well... some combination of water, plastic bottles and aluminum cans, anyway...

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Which leaves us with A -- "the ocean" and E -- "the lake."

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The lake would make sense... but we're given the location of Princeton, New Jersey...

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and we know there's a New Jersey shore.

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In that case, the ocean is a much safer bet. So A is the best choice.

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Snooki says so.

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