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Read these lines: "last of all came the Model Boy, Willie Mufferson, taking as heedful care of his mother as if she were cut glass. He always brought his mother to church, and was the pride of all the matrons. The boys all hated him, he was so good. And besides, he had been thrown up to them so much." According to the quoted lines, why did the other boys hate him?
AHe refused to lend them anything that he owned
BHe told the matrons whatever they had been doing
CHe had arrived in the village only that same year
DHe was the example they were measured against
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. He was the example they were measured against
1. The quoted lines give two reasons joined by and besides.
2. The first is that he was so good, which by itself makes him a standard rather than an enemy.
3. The second explains the sting, that he had been thrown up to them so much, meaning held over them by adults.
4. Being the yardstick they were held against is option D.
5. Options A and B invent unkind acts, but the whole complaint is that he does nothing wrong.
_Source: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), public domain_
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