<p>I know, right? It was nice. My favorite one was Cal Ericson, actually. I had a really fun time reading the passage and answering the questions. It was well-written and the fact that it was contemporary doesn’t surprise me at all… ;)</p>
<p>I really liked the Man and the Restlessness one. It reminded me of a passage in “The Little Prince.”</p>
<p>And I had no idea that the Buckington thing was from Moby Dick. I had a preconceived idea that this book was horrible, but now I’m considering reading it :)</p>
<p>Ah, I hope the fact that this is a recycled test doesn’t affect the curve much. Blech. Does this happen a lot?</p>
<p>That sort of annoys me that the passages were repeated. I felt like I really messed up the Moby Dick excerpt :[</p>
<p>I can’t believe questions and passages would be recycled.
Unless of course the rule saying you can’t talk about the test is supposed to be upheld indefinitely. In which case we’re all breaking the rules here. Whoops.</p>
<p>The Moby Dick passage blew my mind. I’m hunting that book down tomorrow.</p>
<p>I too was shocked to see the repeated passages. Then I was excited. Then I realized that I didn’t understand them any better than the first time.</p>
<p>Haha, I have no doubt that more meanings and themes clicked this time around.
Seems like an unfair advantage for some people, but I guess the folks at collegeboard know what they are doing.</p>
<p>For the Man as a Restless creature, I interpreted the word ‘mean’ (when the poet describes the creatures responding to time in set methods) to mean ‘humble’. Anyone share this?</p>
<p>mean = helpless? I had it down to humble/helpless though.</p>
<p>I narrowed it down to humble and average. Ended up choosing the latter.</p>
<p>I chose average, but I believe it’s humble =/</p>
<p>EDIT: Actually, humble could be wrong. Collegeboard tends to take things really literally, and humble in its basest sense is more like not proud. Bleh… I don’t know.</p>
<p>How about the Narrative shift in XXIX.
Was it from literal/metaphorical elaboration to philosophical reflection?</p>
<p>And back to Man–
Was the author’s tone Sympathetic?</p>
<p>This test can be so subjective sometimes. Its existence precludes that one interpretation of a work is correct, and that’s it.</p>
<p>Yup–I had both of yours.</p>
<p>what were the answers to the “empress homage one” – the first question about what was the dramatic scene about–i put appreciating the memorable…&also, what did the sixty-watts mean? </p>
<p>in the other one, did the birds offer purely mecahnical or unconcerned about future?
the one that was NOT true was the “ships helm” one right? and the one that said … exaltatous…tempestuous…was the choice right? </p>
<p>haha sorry for being impatient – but what about the question asking what did “inconsolable p…” mean for the passage about the strict parents and georgina?
were the parents insensitive to her? what does “Friends of the soul” mean? I know this was mentioned before in the thread, but can we debate on it so I can be convinced of some right solid answer? </p>
<p>thanks =D post more replies guys!</p>
<p>What did everyone put for the ‘lithograph’ question in 'Homage to the Empress of the Blues." </p>
<p>Also, in the passage about the nice, caring man who allowed other to pay his debts, what was the last question about the speaker and the author? I put down that the speaker allowed the author to satrize the society as a whole.</p>
<p>My (possibly wrong) take:</p>
<p>Sixty Watts: atmosphere of night club, grief of someone
Scene: listener enjoying memorable performance
Birds: mark with periods of song
ship helms: exhalation… tempetuous
lithograph: something about unrealistic sentiments?
speaker vs author: author uses speaker to embody a satirized society or something</p>
<p>I forgot the podsnaps ones, but I remember putting ironic hyperbole.</p>
<p>I agree with all of the above, except for the bird one. But I have no reasoning to back it up XD</p>
<p>I just walked in and did it (just because I won’t ever do well on a test that I do first)… I did that in June and I actually got a 620… but my real preparation is for Jan., so hopefully I’ll do well then…</p>
<p>The passages weren’t that terrible (except for that last one)… the poems, however, “the horror, the horror!!!”.</p>
<p>Let’s keep this discussion going. Anyone remember anything else?</p>
<p>For birds, I didn’t think it had to do with their singing–I believe I put that they were unconcerned with the future, since man was wandering about searching for whatever…</p>
<p>The reason why I put “mark periods of song” is because the question asked “The author calls the birds ‘watchful clocks’ because the birds…”.</p>
<p>Where birds like watchful Clocks the noiseless date<br>
And Intercourse of times divide</p>
<p>There is no reason to think that the birds are purely mechanical (too harsh language) or unconcerned about the future. However, they ‘divide’ moments of time with song.</p>