<p>And for the question about what fettered the playwright/author, I put rhymes instead of the other answer choice words. Did anyone get the same??</p>
<p>I got both digressed and rhymes.</p>
<p>There was another question from the Kid Jones passage about what best describes the music’s effect on Kid Jones. Was the answer “a strong force” ?</p>
<p>For the Pygmalion passage, I put enroyalled to mean engage sexually, or something of that sort. Also, was an answer choice to the Pygmalion passage something about Pygmalion being egotistical?</p>
<p>I’m so thankful for score choice…probably got like 650 on this. Hopefully I got the 800 on physics (and I have an 800 on mathII from last year). I was expecting the CR section of the SAT pretty much…but this was insane. It was like an hour-long english quiz from hell.</p>
<p>Overall, I felt like this test was definitely easier than I had been led to expect.</p>
<p>The hardest questions I might have gotten wrong:
- The intended meaning of the humorous Mabel/Lord sth passage … I put that Mabel was mocking the social conventions that Lord Whatshisface took for granted. Because if you think about it, she seems to always to teasing and making fun of high society while Lord sth is largely clueless and subsequently egotistical.
- The meaning of the South Sea Gods… I put that there’s an implied similarity between the “enlightened strictness” and “South Sea taboos” — this actually made sense to me (as opposed to every other choice) because the passage stated that the South Sea gods would have felt right at home in this environment, which was evidently barren and strict. Thus, a correlation must exist between the two.</p>
<p>@sakuraino: Yes, I put “a strong force”. No other choice made sense: the escape one seems to be popular on this thread, but I can virtually guarantee you that nowhere in the passage did Kid Jones NEED to escape from his environment. Why would Kid want to escape playing music and listening to the haunting trumpet melody? It is not an escape; the music is a “strong force” that ripples through Kid and transports his back to a heartbreaking moment.
Also: the Pygmalion one was interesting… yes I put both of your answers (engage sexually and egotistical Pygmalion) … people who took “enroyalled” literally should read more literature. In early modern literature and even earlier, such a term would much more likely be used to refer to a metaphorical sense of “enroyallment”, rather than literally be touched with a crowned, royal person.</p>
<p>I think I may have gotten 2 wrong, maybe 3. Mayhap still an 800?</p>
<p>For the question about Mabel’s manner of speech, could it have been the choice about her asking open ended questions? I remember looking back at the passage and seeing her ask 4-5 questions to Lord Goring that had no definitive answer. But it was also the last question I had to go back to and I had about one minute left so I could have completely missed the ball.</p>
<p>I got that Mabel was mocking social conventions too, which makes sense given that the play was written by Oscar Wilde. </p>
<p>South Sea Gods question stumped me. Didn’t even know what the south sea gods were (other than the fact they were in a museum) and picked that it symbolized the struggle of the working class. Very likely wrong on that one though.</p>
<p>@ExpectMe: was that the question that also had as choices “says things with double meanings” and “digresses often from topic”?
I don’t specifically remember a choice that said “asks open-ended questions”… but I put “says things with double meanings”. As you pointed out, it’s by Oscar Wilde, and we all know he liked to play with the reader. Mabel’s words seem to be comical in light of the situation, but they also criticize social conventions on a deeper level, and also Lord sth’s egoism as well.</p>
<p>@Ivoire: Yes, that was the question I was referring to. The answer didn’t use the exact wording I had, but it was something to the effect of Mabel asking open ended/rhetorical questions to tease Lord Goring.</p>
<p>I definitely agree with you that Mabel was mocking social conventions and Lord Goring (the two kind of go hand and hand…) but it seemed, at least to me, that she was pretty direct in doing so. True, the playfulness of her speech masks the acerbic nature of her criticisms, but I don’t think that really classifies as having a ‘double meaning’. </p>
<p>I do, however, remember her asking several (I thought) playful, open ended questions which caused Lord Goring some distress. I can’t, unfortunately, remember any of them specifically.</p>
<p>The choice was “rhetorical questions,” and she only asked two questions in the passage, IIRC. One was “is this a proposal?” and the other was something about him being oblivious to her real feelings.</p>
<p>OK, I found the passage online (I know, too much time on my hands…) and she asks</p>
<p>“Then I suppose it is my duty to remain with you?”
“Oh! is it a proposal?”
“But you never have been refused yet by anybody, have you, Arthur? I can’t imagine any one refusing you.”</p>
<p>In retrospect, probably not enough to support my answer, especially since I wouldn’t classify the last two as rhetorical.</p>
<p>Yes, I only remember a choice (think it was B) about “asking clearly rhetorical questions”. I agree with xavier110 that (a) having only 2 questions doesn’t really give strong support to the choice and (b) out of the two questions, one is clearly not rhetorical in an “open-ended” sense (asking if it’s a proposal doesn’t give much wriggle room), while the other may be rhetorical based on how she asked it. Even if the latter was rhetorical, having only one question satisfying the answer choice doesn’t make it very likely.</p>
<p>*edit: lol yes there you go…</p>
<p>For the question on the Kid Jones passage asking what effect the music had on him, did anyone say that it connected his past, present, and future?</p>
<p>@jr5570: Not a likely option – the passage gave no clear indication of his future. The “strong force” option is much more likely, considering the powerful effect it had on it.</p>
<p>@Ivoire: His future was not directly mentioned, but at the end of the passage I got the sense that it was somewhat tacitly being referred to. The strong force answer could be correct, but I felt that it was much more broad and vague than the past present future answer. Maybe not though.</p>
<p>What were some of the other answer choices to the one about Mabel possibly mocking social conventions??</p>
<p>@sakuraino: “Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?”
(B) Mabel mocks social conventions that Lord sth takes for granted
(C) Lord sth attacks the social mores that Mabel criticizes
those are the only two choices I remember… I put (B) as the most likely. Fairly confident it’s right.</p>
<p>@jr5570: I see where you’re coming from. The future part you inferred is from where he is melancholy because he sees a lonely life in front of him without his lover, correct?
In that case it’s plausible, but I still don’t think it’s the most likely choice. It’s built on a rather more shaky foundation, as opposed to the “strong force” choice, which is broader, true, but also is supported by the entire passage.</p>
<p>Weren’t the “strong force” and “escape” answers from two different questions? I think they may have been; I definitely wouldn’t have put the escape answer if strong force was another option.</p>
<p>@ Ivoire: thanks, I think that was my answer choice as well. What was your answer to the London passage’s question: This presentation of London is seen from which class/group of people? (some possible answers were working class, criminal side, aristocracy) I put working class as my answer.</p>