<p>Yes it was surprised, the hint word was “astonishment/astonished” within the passage</p>
<p>@ConsolingGrave1</p>
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I almost put that too. “necessary” definitely is appropriate, but I don’t think “beneficial” is. The way Tsunagi snapped shows she doesn’t always think the exchange is “beneficial.” </p>
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Yeah, one of the answer choices was about the forger changing the history of art.</p>
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It was one of those questions that compares the two passages. Like passage 1 did this and passage 2 did that. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the other answer choices and don’t really remember putting “accepting a trend” for passage 1.</p>
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They’re definitely both applicable, but an “esoteric thinker” is pretty broad while “creative recombiner” is much more specific.</p>
<p>ConsolingGrave: The question was asking what the differences between Passage 1 and Passage 2 were. The answer was that the first passage accepts a trend while the second questions the trend.</p>
<p>Alright, cool, that jotted my memory and I remember that one now.</p>
<p>Thanks for your responses Jack and Toast.</p>
<p>And the articulating the meaning across, was that the reason why she was recapping all of those past events like how someone died and got a baby and stuff? So it wasn’t for reasons of insight?</p>
<p>What about the Q/choices for “she finally understands tsunagi”?</p>
<p>For the articulating a point across, wasn’t Maria talking about how the ocean was always the same, even when everything else was changing?</p>
<p>Oh, I remember choosing that one now. But then there was a separate question that asks why she chose certain events to recall, and two of the answer choices were:</p>
<p>insight
and
cataloging momentous events</p>
<p>anyone know which one was the experimental?</p>
<p>ConsolingGrave: For that one, I remember putting that there was underlying continuity between apparent contrasts? I’m nervous now…</p>
<p>I put underlying continuity too. But a different answer was “an attempt to create meaningful insight” or something like that. The “underlying continuity” refers to one of the sentences in the paragraph about the ocean, whereas the “meaningful insight” involves the paragraph as a whole. I believe the questions were right next to each other.</p>
<p>Ah, that clears things up.</p>
<p>Did we confirm that “describing the scenery” was an answer to one of the walking ones? That one kind of made me uneasy.</p>
<p>Me and another member (dlightextract) got that, so I’m assuming it’s correct. It was the only one that made sense to me.</p>
<p>In the art history one… was he a researcher or a detective and why?</p>
<p>I thought it was detective because the question said “Referring to lines so-and-so…” and from those lines alone it made it seem like he was a detective, but when you read the complete passage it could be open to interpretation.</p>
<p>for the sponge question, what was the answer comparing the two textbook teachers and marine biologist</p>
<p>im pretty sure he was a collector, all he talked about was artifacts and different types of objects and his interest in them…i dont think anything indicated he was anything else</p>
<p>and for sentence completions, i got for some:
hubris,
an island,
embezzelment Q: complicity in,
attentiveness for the spider prey one,
other stuff as well…math and writing were fairly easy but its always the critical reading that deviates my scores</p>
<p>The passage gave no indication of the author being a collector, and his interest in artifacts does not necessarily make him one either. I put down detective.</p>
<p>I agree with detective for sure. It referred to the first paragraph in particular, right? The whole “fakebuster” thing clued me in.</p>
<p>@ significant</p>
<p>i dont think i got to that question, but i remember there was some sort of analogy u compare the fishermen who ruined the sponges to farmers plowing sunflowers…</p>