<p>Yes, I think it was one and two.</p>
<p>Was there an answer choice in the land vs. sea thing where, to achieve a truth, that one must forego security?</p>
<p>I had I & II for that</p>
<p>Foregoing security sounds right… </p>
<p>And as for the first passage (the one about a certain farmer)… the quotation passage where the father was commenting on how a so-called engineer couldn’t repair machines… that was “disdain”, right?</p>
<p>yes 101010</p>
<p>Haha, fledgling, I live in Metro Detroit, too! Oakland county :)</p>
<p>Does anyone know the curve for the SAT literature October?.. If it was so similar, the curve must be so, eh?</p>
<p>why was literature so hard?</p>
<p>The passage about Thomas Heartfree can be found at the third paragraph here:
[BOOK</a> 2 CHAPTER 1 [History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great]](<a href=“OJOL77: The Best Indonesian Game Online Provider forever and ever”>OJOL77: The Best Indonesian Game Online Provider forever and ever)</p>
<p>The poem, I believe was a Millay poem, a quick look at her collection of sonnets reveals that it poem 29. It’s the 2nd poem on this page:
[Sonnets</a> of Edna Saint Vincent Millay](<a href=“http://www.violafair.com/poetry/millay/millayfatal5.htm]Sonnets”>Modern Poetry - Complete Sonnets of Edna Saint Vincent Millay - Fatal Interview XXVIII - XXXVI)</p>
<p>The one about, Bulkington, the ocean and landlessness is from Moby Dick, chapter 23:
[23</a> Moby-Dick Herman Melville (1819-1891) American writer.](<a href=“http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/hmelville/bl-hmel-mobydick-23.htm]23”>Classic Literature)</p>
<p>The one with watchful clocks is “Man” by Henry Vaughan
[108</a>. Man. Henry Vaughan. Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th c.](<a href=“Authors - Collection at Bartleby.com”>To Amoret gone from him - Collection at Bartleby.com)</p>
<p>The Jazz one titled “Homage to the Empress of the Blues” can be found a third of the way down on this site:
[chris</a> murray’s <em>Texfiles</em>](<a href=“http://texfiles.blogspot.com/2003_08_24_texfiles_archive.html]chris”>chris murray's *Texfiles*)</p>
<p>The one from Cal Ericson is apparently quite contemporary, and as a result, cannot be found online in full text. However, it is from a book titled “A Thousand Acres” by Jane Smiley.</p>
<p>Would anyone happen to remember the one about the woman’s daughter and souls and inviting people?</p>
<p>@ canned_dice: Awesomeness! Hi fellow Michigander/Wolverine. 
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<p>@ ashencro: The one dealing with the repetition of the word “friends of their souls”… I put “antithetical structure” only because none of the others seemed to work, lol. And I put that the daughter was resentful or something like that…</p>
<p>Awesome, fledgling I put resentful and antithetical, the latter because I was clueless on the question and I felt that none of the others worked either.</p>
<p>Here is the Podsnap thing:</p>
<p>The Podsnaps lived in a shady angle adjoining Portman Square.
They were a kind of people certain to dwell in the shade, wherever
they dwelt. Miss Podsnap’s life had been, from her first
appearance on this planet, altogether of a shady order; for, Mr
Podsnap’s young person was likely to get little good out of
association with other young persons, and had therefore been
restricted to companionship with not very congenial older persons,
and with massive furniture. Miss Podsnap’s early views of life
being principally derived from the reflections of it in her father’s
boots, and in the walnut and rosewood tables of the dim drawing-
rooms, and in their swarthy giants of looking-glasses, were of a
sombre cast; and it was not wonderful that now, when she was on
most days solemnly tooled through the Park by the side of her
mother in a great tall custard-coloured phaeton, she showed above
the apron of that vehicle like a dejected young person sitting up in
bed to take a startled look at things in general, and very strongly
desiring to get her head under the counterpane again.</p>
<pre><code>Said Mr Podsnap to Mrs Podsnap, ‘Georgiana is almost eighteen.’
Said Mrs Podsnap to Mr Podsnap, assenting, ‘Almost eighteen.’
Said Mr Podsnap then to Mrs Podsnap, ‘Really I think we should
have some people on Georgiana’s birthday.’
Said Mrs Podsnap then to Mr Podsnap, ‘Which will enable us to
clear off all those people who are due.’
So it came to pass that Mr and Mrs Podsnap requested the honour
of the company of seventeen friends of their souls at dinner; and
that they substituted other friends of their souls for such of the
seventeen original friends of their souls as deeply regretted that a
prior engagement prevented their having the honour of dining with
Mr and Mrs Podsnap, in pursuance of their kind invitation; and
that Mrs Podsnap said of all these inconsolable personages, as she
checked them off with a pencil in her list, ‘Asked, at any rate, and
got rid of;’ and that they successfully disposed of a good many
friends of their souls in this way, and felt their consciences much
lightened.
There were still other friends of their souls who were not entitled to
be asked to dinner, but had a claim to be invited to come and take
a haunch of mutton vapour-bath at half-past nine. For the clearing
off of these worthies, Mrs Podsnap added a small and early
evening to the dinner, and looked in at the music-shop to bespeak a
well-conducted automaton to come and play quadrilles for a carpet
dance.
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<p>I’m leaving this thread out of fear that I got more wrong than I think I did. 'till Dec 22nd adieu</p>
<p>Fledgling, I put ironic hyperbole because it was definitely a hyperbole (what the heck is a friend of a soul, anyway?) and it was ironic because they wanted to de-friend them. I don’t think they were resentful.</p>
<p>Found the farmer one here actually:
<a href=“http://bhs.bsdvt.org/NECAP/Practice%20Tests/Plan%20ACT/Plan%20Form%2029B/Plan%20Form%2029B-%20Section%203%20Reading.pdf[/url]”>http://bhs.bsdvt.org/NECAP/Practice%20Tests/Plan%20ACT/Plan%20Form%2029B/Plan%20Form%2029B-%20Section%203%20Reading.pdf</a></p>
<p>A hyperbole was something exaggerated I thought… and you’re probably right about the “ironic” part, but I was thinking of hyperbole as something like “I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse!” but I didn’t see that in the passage… or maybe I was completely misinterpreting it. Oh well.</p>
<p>Eh, I guess we’ll have to wait that one out.</p>
<p>Oh! I remember another passage about the good-natured man. Were the deeds of the good-natured man “useless niceties” or “great shortcomings”?</p>
<p>I put “great shortcomings”.</p>
<p>Awesome :)</p>
<p>It seems like this test was just an amalgamation of previous tests! October + November 2009. I don’t know what to feel about that.</p>
<p>canned_dice, I put ironic hyperbole as well. They were definitely not the couple’s soul mates. That’s an exaggeration by far as shown by their avoiding the invitation quite bluntly. “Friends of soul” implies best of best friends; however, they all reject the invitation so it’s ironic and an exaggeration. </p>
<p>And “great shortcomings”; it does say in the passage something about how the list of things (that were repeated in the problem) were weaknesses of his mind.</p>
<p>The one passage that really annoyed me was the ship one. I was getting so frustrated with the poems but managed and when I got to that passage, I was chewing my nails and freaking out. Left quite a few blank, if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>I really liked the poem “Homage to an Empress of Blue” (or something) once I figured out what it was about.</p>