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Taken from 「イエスタデイをうたって２」

Context: One guy wants to visit a female friend (who he barely knows) while
she is sick. This is their conversation when he suddenly stops before entering
her house:

> 「一人暮らしの女の部屋にそう ほいほいと **上がれる** か？」
>
> 「シナコ先生の部屋には入ったくせに？」
>
> 「あいつんとこはいーの...」

As intended in the title of this question, what puzzles me about this
conversation is the 「 **上がれる** 」. I get what their conversation is about,
however I am unsure about what this part of the sentence means in a literal
way. Is he asking her if she really wants to let other people enter her
room/house so easily? Is the 「 **上がれる** 」simply passive?

I feel like overseeing something about the sentence and twisting the meaning
to fit what I had in my head already.

(Further context: The girl actually has a love interest in the guy (what he
knows about); however he is in love with シナコ先生, who is an acquaintance of
both. The girl speaking in this conversation knows that he visited シナコ a few
days ago and cared for her while she was sick.)
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grammar meaning potential-form
The 「上がれる」 in this sentence
上がれる here is the potential form / 可能形 of 上がる.

> そうほいほいと上がれるか？  
>  Could I ever enter so easily/casually? Would I ever be allowed to / Would
> it ever be possible to enter so easily/casually?

The passive form / 受身形 of [上]{あ}がる is [上]{あ}が **ら** れる.

He's saying he doubts a man would be allowed to enter the room of a woman
living alone so easily/casually, from a moralistic viewpoint, and hesitating
to do so.
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