<p>I really don’t get that. what if someone took it for the second time? he would have an advantage</p>
<p>^It’s cheap, that’s what it is. Why the hell would they recycle a test from just a few months ago? Really? I hate College Board.</p>
<p>And why the hell was this test SO much harder than the AP?</p>
<p>Moving this up since it’s the same test as January 2011. Check page 5 for a list of most of the answers. </p>
<p>On the birds and time question from the “Man” poem I said soemthing about birds marking time because birds since in the morning and mark the beginning of the day. Could be wrong though.</p>
<p>Yeah that’s what I put. What were some of your answers for the last poem. I had only 5 minutes to do 10 questions so I did a pretty cursory read of the poem. I was unsure about some of the answers I put.</p>
<p>Reposting this from earlier in the thread.
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>My answers:
48 I didn’t put exhortatory, “pleasing” maybe though?
50 mischief
Don’t remember enough about the rest.</p>
<p>Wow. That’s surprising that they’d recycle a test twice…regardless I refuse to look at these answers and see how many I probably got wrong.</p>
<p>For the enemies one, I said that humans should be kind to their enemies because they’re all human or something like that. </p>
<p>I’m pretty upset. I have -4 confirmed wrong so far… If only I had seen this thread beforehand.</p>
<p>^ I said that too. And if the curve is as generous as I’ve read that it is, if -4 is all you’ve got, you’ve still got a pretty good score.</p>
<p>Even with a -10 I’m pretty sure the score was still in the 700’s.</p>
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<p>I wish I had your discipline. After looking over others’ answers, I’m upset because my interpretation is so different from everyone else’s.</p>
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<p>I thought the speaker was addressing her unborn child in her womb because it’s physically connected to her body in the most intimate way possible. The act of giving birth severs this tie. </p>
<p>The following line was more confusing. It seemed to me that she was reflecting on sharing her body with the child (“I may seem thine”), who for the time being cannot exist without her (“who in effect am none”). If she died prematurely, as it seems was possible, the child would have remained to be “none”. </p>
<p>I didn’t even think about a husband.</p>
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<p>Wow. Your analysis actually makes sense. And yet, it just had to be husband…otherwise the answer choices would not make sense.</p>