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Soooo is it some extremely crazy coincidence that one of my passages on this drill was the same exact one i got in single-position??

I was on a roll until now... thanks for always keeping me humble, 7Sage.

I quickly determined E to be wrong because the word 'vindicated' felt too strong. Was this valid quick reasoning here, or does the use of that word not impact the answer being wrong?

whom else here bc they got this wrong over not knowing the definition of spurious

I get why the other ACs are wrong, but like other people in the comments, I felt A was wrong because that specific part of the quote did not connect the analogy; the remaining part of the sentence not quoted in the question stem did.

So if I'm understanding the advice given by the instructor and tutor correctly - for these types of questions I should consider the whole sentence the quote is from when identifying the role it plays in the argument? #help