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<p>I am going for individual.</p>
<p>he talked about escaping and all. And the whole passage was about him leaving reality. It was just him when he was reading the books. But at the same time, it wasn’t him – it was him and the books.</p>
<p>I picked “individual v. communal” but I don’t know if that’s right…</p>
<p>I think it is… because he talked about each conscience stringing beads on a string which is like super-communal, but he also talked about how solitary reading was.</p>
<p>Did we confirm the one about the Trailer car thing where the narrator abruptly stops the story and asks if shes exageratting or not?</p>
<p>I thought mechanical = unintentional b/c it talked about how the oceans and things were accidental…</p>
<p>IMPORTANT: for those of you saying it was physical, the passage did not mention anything about physics. i think its one of those common sense answer choices that are meant to trip test takers</p>
<p>Esplin, the very next sentence was talking about how waves beat the crap out of rocks. It was obviously physical.</p>
<p>well, i don’t remember the exact wording, but i really think the act of making cracks was portrayed as unintentional. </p>
<p>Maybe if we could look at the question word by word, the answer would be clearer</p>
<p>physical doesn’t mean physics just b/c they share 5 letters in common. Physics is an entire branch of science, whereas physical just means in existence/material.</p>
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<p>What was this question…</p>
<p>rocks aren’t broken accidentally either its a natural course of nature</p>
<p>the waves/tide aways comes in</p>
<p>RedCatharsis: the question was about what the gene map implied or something…universal and interconnected. It was the question right before the scientifically inclined and more philosophical</p>
<p>also anybody remember the question about “string”?</p>
<p>redcatharsis, it was the scitetifically oriented</p>
<p>i said physical, seemed pretty basic; and scientifically oriented
anyone remember the black author passage where one question was “the ‘string’ can best be described as:” ?</p>
<p>50freefly, the next sentence said waves hitting things were ACCIDENTS. </p>
<p>So unintentional…</p>
<p>I still think it’s philosophical for the other one. I would love to know the exact q though.</p>
<p>What was the purpose of mentioning Agathe Christie’s Miss somebody?</p>
<p>^It may be unintentional but mechanical does not mean unintentional at alll… while one of the definitions of mechanical is physical…</p>
<p>I put to say a point about a genre?</p>
<p>Anyone agree?</p>
<p>Why unintentional ? : </p>
<p>The passage made no mention of the shock being mechanical. It did hint at the random nature of rocks getting cracks.</p>
<p>Why philosophically oriented:</p>
<p>I think narrator says that Alistair viewed the gene disposition thingy as fate.
So although he is scientifically inclined, he embraces philosophy. I think the diction tipped me of on this.</p>
<p>Yeah, i know my arguments are weak</p>
<p>even though collegeboard has bizarre secondary definitions sometimes, they wouldn’t actually have mechanical mean unintentional b/c the two words are in fact opposites. You can’t have mechanical meaning automatic (which is a secondary definition) and then the collegeboard answer be unintentional (the exact opposite).</p>
<p>It’s something like…</p>
<p>From the passage, one can discern that Alistair is more ________ than (insert girl’s name here).</p>
<p>Unless it referred to specific lines, then this gets REALLY tricky.</p>
<p>A)
B) Philosophically oriented
C) Scientifically inclined
D)
E)</p>