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Read the excerpt from Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897. [Rev. Simon Hosack] entered fully into the feeling of suffering and sorrow which took possession of me when I discovered that a girl weighed less in the scale of being than a boy, and he praised my determination to prove the contrary. The old grammar which he had studied in the University of Glasgow was soon in my hands, and the Greek article was learned before breakfast.

Which best retells the central idea in this excerpt?

Rev. Simon Hosack agrees to help Stanton because he wants her to find out how difficult it is to learn Greek.
Rev. Simon Hosack agrees to help Stanton because he wants her to help him with his garden in exchange.
Rev. Simon Hosack does not agree with American society’s view that boys are superior to girls.
Rev. Simon Hosack does not agree with Stanton that her father wishes she were a boy.

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