<p>Charizarrd:</p>
<p>Yeah, the retiring and yielding to other playwrights made me think it was another playwright. Could be either one, though.</p>
<p>Hm… so ambiguous :(</p>
<p>Overall, did you guys think it was hard? I didn’t think it was that hard, the passages were all pretty okay. Compared to Barron’s at least.</p>
<p>The playwright one is definitely the beginning of a play…it’s from Aureng-zebe by John Dryden.</p>
<p>^ I always find it really ambiguous and stupid, so yeah, it was difficult in the sense that there’s quite a bit of guesswork involved. I prepared with Kaplan - I heard before that Barron’s overprepares you and totally freaks you out. I used Barron’s for math though.</p>
<p>I was scoring mid 700s on Barron’s so I’m pretty confident about the test. The curve is so bad though >.<</p>
<p>^ Ugh, why is Lit’s curve so harsh, anyway?</p>
<p>From the London passage, what was the answer to the question: the use of enlightenment is used in a way that is___</p>
<p>^ I put ironically.</p>
<p>I put ironic… but I’m not too sure</p>
<p>I also put ironically</p>
<p>I put matter-of-factly, cos I thought there was nothing ironic about it’s use. In restrospect, I see how it’s ironic to the message of the passage. D:</p>
<p>I thought the last passage was the easiest one. o.O The poem from the 1600s about an author/playwright was ********* though</p>
<p>Was the guy in the first passage comically unaware of his self importance?</p>
<p>^i didn’t put that. i don’t remember the passage though; was it about london?</p>
<p>It was the dialogue where the guy proposed. It was either that or he feels discouraged by the competition. He said something along the lines of “petulant ass”.</p>
<p>Also, was the girl characterized by digressions from the topic?</p>
<p>i put discouraged by comp. i think. on a similar note, did you guys put that he was outraged or daunted? i put outraged enough to duel.</p>
<p>and i didn’t put digression.</p>
<p>also, was she criticizing social mores? or was it the social conventions choice?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it was eager to prove how daring he was.</p>
<p>^I’m pretty sure it wasn’t.</p>
<p>i thought the train one was weird, but the questions were pretty easy, since they were all grammar…</p>
<p>@billabong: I put that he was outraged.</p>
<p>He was comically unaware of his own self-importance. Just by dint of the play being by Wilde that’s likely and that’s what the passage supported.</p>
<p>What about the question about the train passage, where it was about the speaker’s attitude toward trains? One of the answers was nostalgia, one was skeptical admiration (or similar)?</p>
<p>I thought it was kind of hard. My brain hurts.</p>
<p>Why do yall say the curve is “harsh” though?</p>