<p>How on earth are you figuring out who’s who? PS. I’m going to pm you my name. Add me :)</p>
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<p>LOL, there’s a whole discussion thread on the FB group called “Who Are You On CC?”. :P</p>
<p>@fledgling.</p>
<p>Dude faster travel is what the father wanted but inexpensive motel is another example to add to the list. That’s the deal.</p>
<p>^ The list was basically all reasons for wanting to take the back route (it was preceded by “There were other, less sentimental reasons for taking the back roads…”)… and I just couldn’t see how “motels” could be a reason.</p>
<p>@fledgling- you have a strong argument, but I am sorry to relate that I recall there being a line in the first paragraph that stated, nearly straight out, that taking the back roads was not as fast as taking the turnpike; this is reinforced by the sentence that sayd a steady stream of cars on the turnpike passed them - like a never ending deck of cards.</p>
<p>also, in the list all reasons were frugal- money realted; inexpensive motels was the only economical answer choice</p>
<p>I also ruled out motels because the passage said that they didn’t plan to stay in a motel.</p>
<p>I ruled out scenic views because that’s not less sentimental than not wanting to take the not-scenic route.</p>
<p>I ruled out faster travel because it said the cars on the turnpike were going faster.</p>
<p>I don’t remember what the fourth one was but I had a good reason for ruling it out too.</p>
<p>I ended up with ‘fewer cities’ as my answer.</p>
<p>Can anybody reiterate the problem about “father’s answer is incomplete?” What are the other answer choices besides narrow-minded?</p>
<p>^^ ‘Less pollution’.</p>
<p>Also, can someone reiterate the question whose answer is humor is not acceptable in all situations? I remember that there was an answer about “company executive” but I can’t recall the complete answer. Can someone help?</p>
<p>Fledgling, you never responded to my inquiry about how your answer would be invalid if the father never intended to stop in the first place.</p>
<p>@ Randwulf: You’re probably right, since if cjester’s remembering correctly, then neither “faster travel” nor “inexpensive motels” would be correct. And the other two choices were “less pollution” and “scenic views”, both of which were of the more sentimental kind.</p>
<p>Darn, I DID think that the passage directly supported “faster travel” though, due to the fact that the dad wanted to make the trip a quick one… I don’t recall there being any mention of “less cities”… hmmm. </p>
<p>Ah well, I wasn’t aiming for a perfect score anyways (and to be honest, that’s quite an unrealistic expectation to have and you’re only going to be frustrated if you don’t attain it). 
My goal was more like 2250.</p>
<p>I thought of the statue thing this way:</p>
<p>Bob: The Greek statues in the museums are plain.</p>
<p>John: But the newly discovered ones aren’t very good-looking either!</p>
<p>Thus – The Greek statues in the museums are plain, yet the new ones aren’t very ornate.</p>
<p>And so, plain/ornate.</p>
<p>What was the experimental CR section on this test?</p>
<p>Perhaps it has been mentioned already in this thread already, but I couldnt find the information i was looking for… so here is my question:</p>
<p>Concerning the passage about scientists, there was the question that asked something like “the example about Dr. whatwashisname primarily serves as” and the correct answer according to the answer key posted here is expansion to the previous generalizations. However, I thought it was more of a digression from the main point, since the example’s point was quite different from the point of the preceding paragraph. Perhaps I had misread the passage. Can someone shed light onto this please? Thanks a bunch in advance!</p>
<p>Pretty sure it was wistfulness. I don’t remember the other answers…I know there was one similar one…was it tenderness? I think that was probably another question. I just know that when I chose wistfulness (and I’m 99% that I actually chose that one), I thought the textual support would have been the fact that he reminisced upon the memory of his mother.</p>
<p>For the “reasons” question for the boy and his father passage, I just thought it had something to do with lack of money.</p>
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<p>Yes, that would go with the “inexpensive motels” answer; however, since the question was asking for one more “other, less sentimental reason” for why the father would have chosen the back routes, it is apparent that he did not even consider motels (he was trying to pick up people to avoid having to stop anywhere overnight), thus they could not have been a reason. I ultimately chose “faster travel”, but if what some of the other posters are claiming is true (that they were not going faster), I could be wrong too. </p>
<p>Meh, when I read the other three choices (“less pollution”, “less cities”, and “scenic views”), I thought they were all more sentimental, so I eliminated them. Then when I thought about the “inexpensive motels” answer this way, I thought that even though the “faster travel” answer was not perfect, it still fit with the notion of economizing and was MORE correct than “inexpensive motels” due to the reasons I mentioned in the first paragraph. </p>
<p>Anyways, my argument is basically that “inexpensive motels” could not have been the right answer.</p>
<p>I really don’t remember that it explicitly stated in the text that Earl and Virgil were not going fast, though. It did say that the cars passed them quickly (hence the deck of cards analogy), but I’m not sure if that necessarily means they themselves were going slowly.</p>
<p>ok this has to end. the answers were “unaccustomed freedom” and “inexpensive motels” because: it’s unaccustomed freedom because NOTHING in the passage shows any sign of stealth, and the unaccustomed freedom was because the son wasn’t used to being used to listen to the radio and now his father was letting him and also because that makes more sense than stealthy. It’s inexpensive motels because it said “which of the following would most appropriately fit in the author’s list of reasons why the back roads were good.” the author mentioned 4 examples, all of which had the word cheaper and less expensive, sooooo…</p>
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<p>My reasons for “stealthy progress” aren’t quite as clear, so even though I have doubts I’ll just assume the consolidated list is correct for that one. </p>
<p>However, I maintain my position on the “inexpensive motels” part. Yes, the author mentioned 3 examples, all of which suggested directly saving money, but the passage said, “There were other, less sentimental reasons for choosing the back roads: (item 1), (item 2), (item 3).” Inexpensive fits in the sequence of the list, but motels would not be a valid reason for choosing the back roads.</p>
<p>I have a hard time believing the answer was that the author was making generalizations. What was he generalizing? It sems like the first paragraph answer was more likely.</p>