<p>I don’t think it was comic relief, though I considered it. I think it was something about demonstrating the effectiveness of staged death.</p>
<p>If you skipped three you should be able to get about four wrong and have a 750.</p>
<p>really? I thought the literature curve was terrible, but that doesn’t seem so bad</p>
<p>all in all though I thought the test wasn’t as bad as I had expected</p>
<p>That actually is pretty harsh compared to the other subject tests.</p>
<p>gramster how sure are you (about the curve)? that would make me feel sooooo much better lol</p>
<p>Hey guys! took the lit test too!</p>
<p>@gramster- yeah I also picked the same thing you answered for the two spies dying.</p>
<p>What about the question that asked what was the play all about or something?
I answered the option that said it was a debate with no clear winner. what about you guys?</p>
<p>@other lit peeps- for the bird thing, my answer was the option that said the birds were unconcerned with future or that effect. :)</p>
<p>For the darkness thing discussed awhile ago, I also picked numeral I and II only. :)</p>
<p>This test was the exact same one as the October 2009 one.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-subject-tests-preparation/791342-october-2009-sat-ii-literature.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-subject-tests-preparation/791342-october-2009-sat-ii-literature.html</a></p>
<p>There’s really no consensus on most of the answers though.</p>
<p>I also put that it was a debate with no clear winner :D</p>
<p>Me too on the debate one</p>
<p>in the kid/room/adults one, I put mutual expereince for one of them, didn’t want to overwhelm</p>
<p>Does anyone remember the ‘obscurly’ question?</p>
<p>I’ve started a list, feel free to add to it!</p>
<p>Woman/Husband/Death Poem</p>
<p>Man/Daughter/Son/ Mother Passage
- mother blames ivy
- self-congradulatory to Dismay</p>
<p>Man vs. Nature Poem</p>
<p>Child/Living Room Passage</p>
<p>Shakespeare Passage</p>
<ul>
<li>Earnest</li>
<li>I and II</li>
</ul>
<p>Yellow Wallflower poem</p>
<p>Shakespeare passage answer was I and III, I believe. The “art imitates life” answer was incorrect.</p>
<p>I think the “obscurely” question was “indefinably.”</p>
<p>Woman/Husband/Death Poem
- remains = children
- reflecting on death to requesting rememberance
- chance = death
- I. cheap and II. Mysterious</p>
<p>Man/Daughter/Son/ Mother Passage</p>
<ul>
<li>mother blames ivy</li>
<li>self-congradulatory to Dismay</li>
</ul>
<p>Man vs. Nature Poem</p>
<ul>
<li>contrasting human to nature</li>
<li>predestined restlessness</li>
<li>author contemptuous toward men</li>
<li>repose</li>
</ul>
<p>Child/Living Room Passage</p>
<ul>
<li>indefinable</li>
<li>adults mutual experiences</li>
<li>not overwhelming the child</li>
</ul>
<p>Shakespeare Passage</p>
<ul>
<li>Earnest</li>
<li>I and III</li>
<li>debate w/ unclear winner</li>
</ul>
<p>Yellow Wallflower passage</p>
<ul>
<li>EXCEPT medicine working</li>
</ul>
<p>Stole this from previous thread, What do you guys think?</p>
<p>Passage 1: “Before the Birth of one of her Children”</p>
<ol>
<li>reason for adversity: it follows us all of the time</li>
<li>connection between sentence and knot: death and marriage</li>
<li>why are they ignorant? don’t know when they will die</li>
<li>who is the friend? the speaker</li>
<li>“i am in effect none”: the speaker won’t be there anymore (i.e., she’ll be dead)</li>
<li>“chance” = speaker’s death</li>
<li>what does the speaker want? for her husband to love her when she’s gone</li>
<li>who are the “Remains”? her children</li>
<li>the path of the poem: relection on death to a request for remembrance</li>
<li>what are the “gains” that the husband will have? happiness that accompany him after she’s gone</li>
</ol>
<p>Passage 2: The Vicar of Wakefield Passage</p>
<ol>
<li>Feelings of speaker: from self-congratulatory to dismayed</li>
<li>fortitude: stoic self-restraint v. physicalness</li>
<li>“viley deceived” = livy is to blame</li>
<li>VIEW OF ENEMIES: ?? not sure about this one</li>
<li>CONTRADICTORY, CONFUSING, DOGMATIC, ETC?</li>
<li>question about what characterized the passage in general: choices were metaphors, something about abrupt sentences</li>
<li>i think there was a I, II, III question here…I put I, II, III as my answer, but can’t remember the question!</li>
</ol>
<p>Passage 3: “Sonny’s Blues” Excerpt
18. effect of opening sentence
19. all of the adults: communal experiences
20. obscurely: undefinably
21. light does all of the following except: demonstrate the child’s aspirations
22. the darkness outside represents: naivete of childhood (?)
23. the adults don’t speak about past because: they don’t want to scare the children</p>
<p>Passage 4: The Yellow Wallpaper</p>
<ol>
<li>romantic houses: something like in a romance novel (? - no better choices!)</li>
<li>The house is inexpensive and mysterious and romantic (I & II)</li>
<li>one v. I: not because she is trying to exaggerate her illness</li>
<li>the fact that she writes on her issues: trying to deal with her problems by herself</li>
<li>all of the following is indicated except that: her meds are working</li>
<li>question about how she was obedient (or maybe, she was following expected patterns? I’m not sure, but I thought it was the former)</li>
</ol>
<p>“Man” Poem</p>
<ol>
<li>Poem = contrast between man and nature</li>
<li>“watchful clocks” = song</li>
<li>toyes and care = trifles and troubles</li>
<li>why can’t man find his home? PRESDESTINED RESTLESSNESS</li>
<li>speaker’s opinion of man? contemptuous</li>
<li>what is the speaker saying about birds? they are fully sustained in what god provided for them</li>
<li>“mean” - HUMBLE</li>
<li>wishes man could find repose?</li>
<li>one question had an answer about man’s restlessness</li>
</ol>
<p>“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”</p>
<ol>
<li>question about Guildenstern’s view on something - forget answer</li>
<li>I,II, III question - art imitates life, life imitates art, etc. I think the answer was I, II, III </li>
<li>the Player believes you should show audiences what they expect</li>
<li>Guildenstern is being earnest</li>
<li>the Player showed a real hanging which proved the audience didn’t believe him</li>
<li>a debate with no apparent winner</li>
<li>was one answer something like, Guildenstern is trying to instruct Rosencrantz?
<em>I’m missing some here I think</em></li>
</ol>
<p>Edna St. Vincent Millay poem</p>
<ol>
<li>“forbear” means to decline (or something along those lines)</li>
<li>live for today</li>
<li>exhortatory</li>
<li>a question about what lines 1-8 say…i forget!</li>
<li>all of the words have to do with old age except… i forget what the word was!</li>
<li>last question about author’s tone</li>
<li>meaning of “summer mischief” sentence</li>
<li>meaning of the metaphor</li>
<li>last sentence of passage: does it reiterate the basic argument of the whole poem (what I thought)? or simply the metaphor?</li>
</ol>
<p>mischief does not have to do with old age…right?</p>
<p>Are you kidding me, this test was recycled from October 2009?!</p>
<p>Damn, I already thought I did bad enough, and now I know the curve is going to be extra terrible.</p>
<p>I think forbear meant “refuse”</p>
<p>Right now I am expecting a 690, I know I missed at least 4 but I am not sure if I missed any others.</p>
<p>I felt a whole lot better about the test until I check my answers against ccer’s answers. :p</p>
<p>Are we sure that the attitude was “contemptuous”? There didn’t seem to be any contempt for man in the poem, as the author went on to mention how it was God’s ordained word or whatever that man would act that way. I chose “sympathetic” since it seemed like she was more sad than angry.</p>
<p>I think i put contemptuous cause i forgot what that meant and everything else seemed like they were wrong.</p>