<p>puzzling and fabrication vs enigmatic and edifying
This one was enigmatic and edifying because he wanted to learn about his father's life but to him his father's life was a mystery. Fabrication is made up to lie or cover up. Fabrication has no relevance to the passage whatsoever. </p>
<p>steps from the ballet dance
This one is instructions. Although one may be attempted to answer that it is movement the steps specifially relate to instructions. I remember in the passage reading about which foot to put where and stuff. Instructions is correct on this one. </p>
<p>I dont know about this one but what did u guys put for the one about the dark swatchs or whatever. What it revealed about the author. This is from the chinese dad passage.</p>
<p>I said enigmatic and edifying, movements, and ignorance.</p>
<p>For enig./edif., I thought it mentioned that the author could easily place his family in the fable of Chinese Americans, which doesn't seem to be a fabrication.</p>
<p>Which foot to put where is a movement, to me. But we can agree to disagree.</p>
<p>White swaths was ignorance because he didn't know what to fill in there about his dad.</p>
<p>I think the step one is movements. It said "there are a series of steps" and "how and when to do them." You don't /do/ instructions, you do movements. I'm pretty sure about this.
I'm unsure about puzzling-fabrication and picked it because I didn't know what edifying meant. -facepalm-
The blank swatches on the canvas were his ignorance.</p>
<p>Actually, "fabrication" may have relevance if you account for the fact that the author talks about how the life stories become "fables", skewed from the truth in a way. Edifying means "enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement" according to a web site. That can't be right.</p>
<p>^ I second all of the above poster's answer choices.</p>
<p>Also, I think that the word "puzzling" is more appropriate than "enigmatic" for a riddle. A riddle IS a puzzle, isn't it?</p>
<p>But in context, the things he doesn't know about his father aren't a puzzle. They're an enigma, a mystery. That's how I see it anyway. He's not fabricating information about his dad, he's gone from learning things about him (reading his Chinese essays, etc) to simply being unable to decode any further</p>
<p>In my opinion, it's one of the worst SAT questions ever.</p>
<p>Note: Merriam-Webster also lists "to inform" as a definition for edify, which makes sense.</p>
<p>Well a riddle is enigmatic too, surely.</p>
<p>The author was contrasting the fables (edifying, or teaching more about his father - which don't exist for him and hopes he will get them) to his jumbling, incoherent story of father (riddle - enigmatic - impossible to understand)</p>
<p>Yay! The more controversial questions, the better the curve!</p>
<p>It is not instructions. It said they had to "do" the steps over and over. You don't do instructions over and over, you do movements. In the context of dance especially movements makes 1000x more sense than instructions does.</p>
<p>I think it also referred to steps in the sense of how and when to do them (for the ballet pupil), which only works with movements, as the student wouldn't learn how and when to do instructions.</p>
<p>can u post the full question to the movement question</p>
<p>can u post the full question to the movement question please</p>