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A good way to figure out the answer is if you say the sentence out loud and try each answer choice in the sentence (for future reference)
Answer:
Ponyboy relates to the character of Pip because Pip was “marked lousy because he wasn't a gentleman or anything, and the way the girl kept looking down on him” (15). ... He tells a story of a girl in his class calling him a hood when he used his switchblade to dissect a worm in Biology to prove his point.
Explanation:
The sentence "Moreover, it is probably just as valuable or more valuable to us now, than it was in the ancient past".
