<p>it was like after the discard media question, something about egos?? masc/fem was one of the answers, but not the correct one i think</p>
<p>oh darn, i realize character meant nature. i was thinking of outdoor nature ugh.</p>
<p>sunfire - for that question about egos/insecurities, i put the one about advertisers</p>
<p>It has to be nature, not personality - an inanimate object can't have a personality.</p>
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I changed to explanation instead of pertinent observation because</p>
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<li>What Mark Twain said did NOT reflect what was going on - IE, they critisized him. Therefore, rather than assuming that the quote was incorrect, the authors posits an explanation that people must not need him.
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<p>True, but you could still argue for pertinent observation on the grounds that the author's explanation of the quote was an observation. I think both answers are viable, but what the author said didn't really seem like that much of an explanation to me - he just said that the critics didn't like him, which was already pretty obvious.</p>
<p>lol still don't remember the question at allllll, anyone remember what it was askingg? (the ego/insecurities one)</p>
<p>Hmm... I keep seeing people talk about Chinese women artists, but I don't remember ANYTHING about that. Could you guys explain it quickly and maybe refresh my memory? I feel somewhat worried.</p>
<p>The masc/femin. was in the passage about the woman who wrote Little Women..and started to write with her left hand and became spunky or something haha</p>
<p>ohh, well i didn't have that passagee</p>
<p>Yeah... i don't remember any Little Women passage. (Must have been experimental?)</p>
<p>I did have 4 CR sections, so its possible..</p>
<p>yea so
i definitely found the vocab a lot harder than usual, and i felt that the indian computer person/novelist was actually kind of hard
:(
but yea
CR was DEFINITELY my experimental</p>
<p>For the pertinent observation vs. explanation question...</p>
<p>People who are saying that the pertinent observation one is wrong viewed the question this way: What was Twain observing about in the passage? </p>
<p>I viewed the question this way: Twain made an observation about how people, in general, praise others so others would praise them. Then I decided that his observation was especially pertinent to the Indian writer's situation.</p>
<p>I eliminated the explanation one because Twain was not explaining why the writer's colleagues did not praise him. Did the colleagues not praise the writer because they praise other people to receive praise? That just doesn't make any sense to me.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what the other answer choices were for the lion insight/expand question?</p>
<p>Also, what were the other answer choices for the "italicized" question (qualifying was one of the answer choices)?</p>
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I viewed the question this way: Twain made an observation about how people, in general, praise others so others would praise them. Then I decided that his observation was especially pertinent to the Indian writer's situation.</p>
<p>I eliminated the explanation one because Twain was not explaining why the writer's colleagues did not praise him. Did the colleagues not praise the writer because they praise other people to receive praise? That just doesn't make any sense to me.
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<p>I think the question was not so much asking why Twain said what he said but why the author used what he said. I did, however, go with pertinent observation.</p>
<p>i agree with ldftalk</p>
<p>1) I chose amused disbelief also
2) The china dog passage was pretty easy and interesting, the short passage on big leafed plants and big cats was fairly simple, the passage on the media affecting children with the expert opinion/author was challenging and of medium difficulty, the passage with the dinosaurs had a few tough questions at the end, the curry man passage that was second to last was dreadful and destroyed/completely obliterated my brain cells</p>
<p>I had a math experimental which was alright. Better than CR definitely. </p>
<p>the answer for one of the dinosaur passage was (Direct objection), not (mild annoyance), it talked about the dogmatic scientists and how they thought questionability of an artifact was like heresy or something like that. Heresy is like blasphemy, basically it is very severe. At first I thought direct objection was an extreme answer choice but mild annoyance was too weak so I'm 95% sure it was direct objection</p>
<p>I now officially hate Mark Twain and his stupid aphorisms as well as Indian computer programmers who decide to become novelists.</p>
<p><em>strong</em> objection you mean (just to avoid confusion)</p>
<p>that's so unrealistic.. you don't see many people going from computer programming or science in general to a writer.. There's a reason why some people are often either good in cR or math.. because it's hard to be good at both arrgh.</p>