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In the novel The Rise of Silas Lapham, the newly rich title character struggles to acquire ____ manners.

A. autocratic
B. autonomous
C. genteel
D. humanistic

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The correct answer is C. genteel

The newly rich title character is not genteel, but wishes to become so even though he spent his life not being like that.
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