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ACT Reading 2.8 Humanities Passage. How did Frederick Wieck contribute to Schumann's career?

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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by Frederick Wieck <<veek>>. Ain't got nothin'

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but love, babe... eight days a Wieck.

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As described in the passage, how did Frederick Wieck contribute to Schumann's career?

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To get to the bottom of this one, we need to know just what good old Freddy Wieck did for Robert Schumann.

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Even if we don't remember from the passage, we can tell from the possible answer choices

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that Wieck must've given some kind of alley-oop to Schumann as he soared towards his slam-dunk

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of composer fame. Choices (B) and (D) are the easiest to remove

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from our lives, because they don't remotely resemble anything that the passage covers.

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There's no talk of Wieck booking shows for Schumann, like (D) tries to make us believe.

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And there's definitely no talk of Wieck co-writing anything that Schuman even vaguely

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conceived of writing. We can leave both (B) and (D) by the wayside.

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Let's see what answer (A) has to offer.

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Well, we know from an earlier question, and from the passage, that Schumann's first

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teacher was some old nameless pedantic guy from Zwickau <<zwick-ow>> High School.

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So we're sure that Wieck wasn't whoever this dude was, and we can eliminate choice (A).

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Choice (C) totally gets it right. The passage tells us that Wieck was the guy who was the

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first to really school Schumann on what music was all about.

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Whether he liked it or not.

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