<p>link for cave paintings passage? (1)</p>
<p>Well I managed to find SOME parts of passage 2 in this article. Am I not the only one who remembers some of these quotes? </p>
<p><a href=“The Nature of Paleolithic Art by R. Dale Guthrie, an excerpt”>The Nature of Paleolithic Art by R. Dale Guthrie, an excerpt;
<p>does anyone remember a fill-in with “incredulous” as the answer? people from my school insist it was the right one, but i can’t remember the question.</p>
<p>so far i’ve got one wrong! (excluding incredulous)
hopefully the curve will be good this time.</p>
<p>I put obstreperous for the question with incredulous as an option</p>
<p>^ i don’t believe that’s possible. if i recall correctly they were different questions.</p>
<p>@lord
that’s not the actual passage, just some of the quotations
i dont think that helps as much, as the actually article would put a lot more things in context than disconnected quotes =P</p>
<p>^ya, that’s what I meant–disconnected quotes.</p>
<p>The incredulous question was the one with obstreperous but I said ‘duplicitous’…</p>
<p>wow… this thread got reeaallly slow after like… the 2nd day</p>
<p>is there consensus on the black highschooler? or attitude between the 2 authors for the cave art? i put aggressive behavior and calm indifference respectively…</p>
<p>For the first jazz question the passage says: “For after the jazzman has learned the fundamentals…he must then find himself.” The “For after” and “must then” would seem to indicate that formal training must come before creativity.</p>
<p>if i got 5 questions wrong and omitted 6, what do you think my score is???</p>
<p>jm, my guess would be around a 650</p>
<p>actually i do not quite understand for the experimental section, what does it mean? is it the whole section or the one reading only?</p>
<p>Two huge oversights by this thread.</p>
<p>1) it’s simplistic and NOT evocative and moving. a) the question asked for the opinions of both artists (obviously Guthrie’s opinion discounts evocative and moving) NOTE: There is a possibility the question asked for only author one’s opinion, as I admit that I do not remember the question perfectly. However, it would still be simplistic, as I will now demonstrate. b) author one is very clear how he views the paintings THEMSELVES as simplistic. The entirety of the last paragraph discussed how the patterns were repetitive, and only depicted a few things in the same way. “Evocative and moving” means to cause emotional stirrings. Even if the author described how amazing the paintings were (which I do not remember the least bit, but others seem to), it was very clear that the paintings were very simple (the paintings were from thousands of years ago–obviously they couldn’t not be simple). I am amazed by how the members on this thread agree on wrong answers.</p>
<p>2) it’s not sympathetic; it’s frustration. Come on, sympathetic? The scientists would be sympathetic about a theory? What does that even mean? They are most definitely frustrated that the theory they support and wholeheartedly believe in is being called into question/not being accepted. </p>
<p>I have no idea why people are arguing the merits of answers like the jazz section or the “smoke” questions, two extremely clear ones, while accepting the wrong answers on these two questions in particular.</p>
<p>kudos to you for bringing the heat back to this thread (hopefully…)</p>
<p>crosby, you make good points. I agree with point 1, however i must disagree with point two. That question was confusing and hard to understand. These scientists in passage two did not hold the view of guthrie. These scientests were “looking for a key to natural history” blah blah blah. This grand theory, which was being searched for by scientists in passage 1, is something that these other scientists (passage 2) would look for. Therefore the scientists mentioned in passage two would feel sympathetic towards those who are trying to find the overarching theory in passage one. They both share the common goal of trying to find/unlock this seemingly impossible to find theory.</p>
<p>Sympathy = understanding between people; common feeling</p>
<p>^ i too believe that your argument on simplistic is correct, but i’m also going to have to say that i think sympathy is still the answer though.</p>
<p>@crosby
get your self-righteousness out of here, especially without reading any of the past posts except perhaps the past 2 pages, of course you’d have “no idea”</p>
<p>anyways its NOT simplistic nor frustration
- you are misunderstanding the definition of simplistic
look up the word, read all the definitions, and come back and say if you still think thats the answer
sure, passage 1 might have claimed that the paintings had continual repetition of the same content within its paintings, however, thats NOT the definition of simplistic. neither was it the focus of the passage, throughout the whole passage he was focusing on the evocative aspects of the paintings through vivid descriptions of things like the lion’s blazing eyes, the precise line that was drawn for the lion. etc. etc. that would be anything BUT simplistic, even if it was, evocative and moving would be the better answer. additionally, guthrie might have said that the paintings were “doodles” done by “teenagers” but he concluded his analysis that the influence and beauty of the paintings were truly something to be amazed at (aka moving) and is exactly WHY we can overlook the artists of the paintings and rather focus on the paintings themselves - definitely not frustration. i agree with everything lord said, and besides, the question was NOT what the scientists thought about the theory, but rather what they thought about those pursuing the theory. once again, the scientists in passage 2 NEVER claimed that they had an established theory, but rather contended that the paintings would help unlock the secrets of the “grand theory” </p>
<p>if you actually read the 78 pages of posts, you would understand we’ve already had this debate before. and seriously, just because you might perceive some questions to be clear cut and others to be wrong, that doesn’t mean everyone else does either. people come on this board to see what others think about the SAT. it seems you came in 100% of all your answers and have no purpose except to bag on the people in this thread. if your so sure, why come on this thread in the first place?</p>
<p>idk if im the only one who took offense, but whatever. that’s just my bit.</p>
<p>@■■■■, after reading over crosby’s post, he seems rather overbearing to me as well. We are trying to respect others opinions here, and are trying to arrive at answers in a civilized and human fashion. Sure I’m disappointed that some of my answers are wrong, but just because I put them doesn’t mean theyre right. Heck, i’m at a -9 right now, but you don’t see me bashing people who disagree with my answer choices. I try (or at least I hope that I have tried) to argue my stance on choosing certain answers RESPECTFULLY. Then I heed the opinions of others RESPECTFULLY. After re-reading yours and @■■■■’s post, I see that you show no respect to us who have been debating certain questions RESPECTFULLY for some 70 odd pages.</p>