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<li>bewilderment, for sure.</li>
<li>and i put cunningly fraudulent</li>
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<p>Bewilderment certainly WAS the answer. He was BEWILDERED with the naming process, why it was no longer his beloved broncheasaurus, and couldn't even say the name because he was BEWILDERED. I don't even know how people can argue another way...just seems like rationalization for their wrong answer, honestly.</p>
<p>And it also was a pertinent observation. Mark Twain was not explaining their reactions. The author was observing that Mark Twain's quote appeared to be true....he wasn't using it to explain their actions.
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False. The question was the first or second question, referencing the BEGINNING of the passage, where she still liked dinosaurs. Even if it was that paragraph, a person doesn't become "confused" if the name of their favorite dinosaur is changed.</p>
<p>False on Mark Twain. Mark Twain said "The best way to get adoration is to tell people you adore their work". The author was NOT receiving adoration(rather, it was criticism), which is why he said a sentence later "The people must not need mine". </p>
<p>Cunningly fraudulent was incorrect, the passage suggested that scientists who took the route often lead to problems, but it did not go as far as saying that scientists were intentionally manipulating the facts to fraud people.</p>
<p>Wasn't the admiration/bewilderment question only talking about the first paragraph when the narrator was a child and adored the dinosaurs with her sister, thus showing ADMIRATION for the creatures? Also, it wasn't utterly problematic, it was ultimately problematic, meaning that even though it was convenient at the time for the scientists, it eventually led to problems when the scientists had to change their facts and people saw them as deceptive.</p>
<p>Yes but HIS explanation was people saying "The people must not need mine", Mark Twain was not explaining it.</p>
<p>And maybe I'm thinking of the wrong question for bewilderment, then. I was thinking like the third or fourth question. What was the question? 'Cause if it's the admiration question, I put admiration.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what question # the explanation/observation question was so we can check it when we get the SAS? Also, the question didn't ask why mark twain said it, it asked what the purpose of the quote being in the passage was. I still don't know either way, but I'm hoping for explanation being right!</p>
<p>Bob, that's where I think a lot of people misread the question. The question did not ask for the meaning of the quote, or what Mark Twain's opinion was - rather, the question asked the reason why the AUTHOR referenced the quote. I know this because I spent several minutes analyzing the question. </p>
<p>I know factually, that a very early question, had both admiration and bewilderment as answers. The answer was CLEARLY admiration, although I see some discrepancies within the line references... which has lead me to believe that perhaps there were two questions with bewilderment as an answer? Seems unlikely....</p>
<p>If there was a second question with bewilderment, I think it was a longer answer that was explaining something, but I don't remember. I really hope you're right about the mark twain quote ?mark</p>
<p>I think there was an answer something along the lines of "bewilderment with the changes in the museum"...that's what I was referring to anyways.</p>
<p>Now I'm trying to remember if I put explanation, because I honestly can't remember anymore.</p>
<p>^^ Oh yeah, was it the question about why she said apaah....saurus?</p>
<p>Yeah, that was it.</p>
<p>Yeah, bewilderment was one of the answers to the apah saurus question. Everything thinks the answer is bewilderment but I think it was something having to do with not caring anymore or something. Bewilderment just doesn't seem like an SAT-style answer.</p>
<p>Well, the discrepancy here is that people are referring to two parts of the passage.</p>
<p>One at the beginning, when she liked dinosaurs, where admiration and bewilderment were definitely two possible answer choices. I debated between the two, but I came up with admiration because the literal definition of bewilderment did not fit.</p>
<p>The other question referred to the reason why apt-o-saurus was mentioned. I do remember the question, but I DO NOT remember bewilderment being a possible answer choice... It is possible that I am being forgetful, but as I have fairly decent memory....</p>
<p>The answer may not have been directly bewilderment, but something close to it. I know that for a fact. And are people HONESTLY debating the first question? I said admiration in under two seconds.</p>
<p>Question 1 was definitely admiration, and I'm almost certain the other question was bewilderment at how much things had changed, because that was the topic of the entire paragraph. I'm not sure if the word bewilderment was actually used in the answer choice, but it was the only one about change.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's what I was saying.</p>
<p>God damn, why can't they post on their website a list of our answers without it graded? I want to know what I put so I can remember. DID I PUT EXPLANATION OR OBSERVATION?</p>
<p>Ok good.</p>
<p>If the answer was not directly "bewilderment" as a single word like question 1, it looks like there's just a misunderstanding. </p>
<p>I'm sticking with explanation for attitude until someone can provide a better reason that I did above.</p>
<p>Does anyone remember exactly what the two answer choices stated. I'm pretty sure the one was "explanation for the views of the other writers" but what was the rest of "pertinent observation"? I can't remember exactly but I'm sure since the choices were fairly similar, it must have been something in the word choice that pushed it one way or the other.</p>
<p>explanation for the attitude of his colleagues, pertinent observation did not have much attached to it so idk.</p>
<p>For the question on why Indian guy cited twain, wasn't b/c he looked up to twain who had influence on his work also a choice?</p>
<p>The Mark Twain quote was about giving compliments to an author. Then the passage said that the colleagues probably hadn't heard the quote, because none of them gave compliments to the Indian guy.</p>
<p>I don't think the answer was explanation, because it just wouldn't make sense (that people didn't compliment him because they had never heard the Mark Twain quote). Instead, I thought pertinent observation made sense, because it was expanding on the idea that people didn't like his books.</p>