<p>Did anyone find some of the questions relating to the railroad passage difficult?</p>
<p>Yes and no...the only question that I had to really think about was number one in that passage. How about you?</p>
<p>I was really confused by the subject/verb question of that passage..</p>
<p>OMG this was almost the exact same lit test I took last time. EVERY SINGLE passage. Except the questions were different. Harder imo. But yeah, every single passage I saw today I had seen before. lol I"m a rising senior, I just wanted to retake the lit test because I didn't get a 700.</p>
<p>Unfortunately I couldn't remember it enough so that I didn't have to read the questions. I actually only got to 54 on it. Ran out of time.</p>
<p>I did horrible with time management today. I took the Math II for the hell of it too. I only got to about 40! yikes. On the plus side, I'm pretty sure I got all 40 right.</p>
<p>But that's a horrible thing to happen. I FINALLY get a test where I know everything on it, but I only get to 35~40. I normally SUCK at math and here was a math test that I could have aced! Only I didn't manage my time well enough and I screw myself over.</p>
<p>Life is unfair.</p>
<p>uhh that response usually only works if someone says the word 'unfair'. haha</p>
<p>i thought the train passage was exceptionally hard. the rest were moderate.</p>
<p>I wish the SAT crit reading was like this--I actually didnt mind the passages too much. Probably only because I had just taken the math and was glad to see words instead of numbers. Passages were pretty nice--the long one was pretty sad...</p>
<p>What's the general curve for lit? Is it like -1 or -2 is an 800, or do you have to get them all right?</p>
<p>Also, the last passage was the Kid Jones one with the trumpet, right? I loved that one. :)</p>
<p>I feel like I learned a lot walking out of that test. Great passages - and the questions weren't too difficult. I think I did well.</p>
<p>i felt like the passages were in spanish or some other language. english please!! lol. ok i'm kidding. but i thought it was pretty difficult. i'm not big on literature so i'm not expecting a good score.</p>
<p>The embargo lifted a while ago so people remember some questions and let's discuss..</p>
<p>I'll start by asking what was the subject/main verb of first sentence of railroad passage?</p>
<p>Also, what didn't the "repeated emphasis" of the drum represent? Was it the piano player's prescence?</p>
<p>for the subject/verb one I put one of the I's. The choices were 'I don't know' 'I hear' 'I somethingelseIcan'tremember'. I dont know which is right though.</p>
<p>wasn't the drum question an EXCEPT question?</p>
<p>Yeah, I said that the repeated emphasis represented everything except the piano player's presence. What was the meaning of "just" in that poem with the oaks/flowers?</p>
<p>I put merely .</p>
<p>OMG.. I felt like I did so badly O.O I was confident going in.. but I lost track of time and my pacing became so neurotic to the point where I wasn't understanding simple passages/questions. Can you guys think of anymore questions? I'm debating whether to cancel or not.</p>
<p>What did you guys get for that question about "what was the predominant trait" or whatever for the sculpture in that one passage. There was drunkeness, artistic longing, amorous desire... can't remember. And for the very last question in the trumpet passage, what was the effect of the music or something? Like a burden, desire.... anything else?</p>
<p>I put amorous longing and desire for those two. Some more questions from the first passage and the answer choices, as best I remember:</p>
<p>Who laughs at Mrs. Ssdfhasodi? (the narrator, the reader, Joseph)
Which trait does Mrs. Ssdfhasodi not have? (irony/lust/aggressiveness)
What is the author warning against? (vanity/green/hypocritical piety/class antagonism)
Why is the word luckily used? (to show that the author sides with the dude)
What does "Oh Joseph" indicate (passionate desire)
What do "________" and "ironing" mean? (insult and mock)</p>
<p>I put the reader and the narrator. I felt it was only the reader, but they didn't have that choice. So because I had to, I put the reader and the narrator.</p>
<p>I put irony because I didn't think it was a trait someone could have. I mean there is irony in her speech, but to me that doesn't describe her. I probably got that one wrong.</p>
<p>Vanity.</p>
<p>show narrators bias</p>
<p>passionate desire</p>
<p>insult and mock</p>
<p>^Yeah.. I got the same answers except the irony and passionate desire. I thought she was being ironic by saying "Oh Joseph" because didn't she want to tear him into pieces (like a tigress)?</p>
<p>yeah, the irony one was tricky. I guess it would depend on whether the irony was intentional -- it is certainly ironic that Mrs. Slipslop calls Joseph a "barbarous monster" when SHE is acting like a tigress . . . but then again she tells him about her passion in a very blunt, fairly non-ironic manner . . . I mean, the author is definitely being ironic, but I'm not sure about Mrs. Slipslop herself</p>