The only reason I discounted the correct answer is that I read "rose" as "kids just standing up in an auditorium." SMH, I wasn't paying attention.

I almost chose the correct answer. I kinda read fast and thought "the writer" was just any other writer, not Homer. I thought they were referencing just another writer having different works that are dissimilar to one another with respect to Homer's works, or so-called works according to the stimulus!

B got me because I thought for A, "any damage" was too strong as the stimulus says "this damage." Ugh.

@JackFoley No really, I was like, "heck no," then when he circled it, I was like, "excuse me?"

I didn't choose the correct answer, because in my mind, "history" meant the era it was created and/or the significance of the painting.

I thought B was the obviously wrong answer, because it said "if any antibiotic now on the market," and I was like, "but the stimulus clearly said there isn't any antibiotic now on the market powerful enough, so now what?" Also, I did not really know what "virulent" really meant.

This one is really hard. I chose B, and my reasoning was that they "do not rely on subscriber fees" because the broadcast networks have higher advertising rates, since cable has lower ad rates. And therefore, that's how the broadcasts don't rely on subscriber fees, while cable TV does.

A would've been my second choice, honestly, because I thought, "Well, we don't know anything about broadcast networks going worldwide, do we?"

Maybe I would've chosen A first if I'd seen that 'rely' does not equal 'subsidized'.

I'm still trying to convince myself that B is a clearly incorrect answer choice.