November 2008 SAT Subject Test: Literature

<p>For the Daughter Livy who runs away... one of the last questions about how the father felt, I put dogmatic tendencies... anyone else remember?</p>

<p>I thought he was more optimistic than any of the other choices. He definitely wasn't self-congratulatory, but he wasn't passive either. He thought his future would be great and was looking forward to it. I can't remember what the exact phrase was but something about optimism.</p>

<p>I had such a hard time with figuring out whom the mother blamed. I put she blamed the daughter because of the "she deceived" part, but I couldn't figure out if the wording was just different because of the time period.</p>

<p>optimistic and self-congratulatory both sound good to me but it also matters what was the second word which was paired with the first word...hm</p>

<p>this was a hard test. What do you guys think the curve will be?</p>

<p>What about this poem?</p>

<p>Charles on Fire</p>

<p>Another evening we sprawled about discussing
Appearances. And it was the consensus
That while uncommon physical good looks
Continued to launch one, as before, in life
(Among its vaporous eddies and false claims),
Still, as one of us said into his beard,
"Without your intellectual and spiritual
Values, man, you are sunk." No one but squared
The shoulders of their own unlovliness.
Long-suffering Charles, having cooked and served the meal,
Now brought out little tumblers finely etched
He filled with amber liquor and then passed.
"Say," said the same young man, "in Paris, France,
They do it this way"--bounding to his feet
And touching a lit match to our host's full glass.
A blue flame, gentle, beautiful, came, went
Above the surface. In a hush that fell
We heard the vessel crack. The contents drained
As who should step down from a crystal coach.
Steward of spirits, Charles's glistening hand
All at once gloved itself in eeriness.
The moment passed. He made two quick sweeps and
Was flesh again. "It couldn't matter less,"
He said, but with a shocked, unconscious glance
Into the mirror. Finding nothing changed,
He filled a fresh glass and sank down among us.</p>

<p>I didn't have a clue what most of it meant. </p>

<p>What was wrong with the guys hand? Did he burn it, cut it, or something else?</p>

<p>What was the significance of him looking in the mirror at the end?</p>

<p>Did the glass signify the fact that youth doesn't last long?</p>

<p>Yeah I just put down the youth answer</p>

<p>I think Charles set the alcohol in the glass on fire, then the vessel cracked, soaking his hand in alcohol and fire. His hand was unburned because the fire's fuel was the alcohol, signifying that "Appearances" and "flesh" are not fleeting (which is what I took "vaporous eddies" to mean). By looking in the mirror, Charles revealed that he didn't completely believe that appearances are not fleeting. Any other interpretations?</p>

<p>vaporous eddies
what were teh other choices?</p>

<p>Dude the curve on this has to be pretty high. Higher than most tests. There are so many disagreements here...</p>

<p>Not good. Well maybe it is for me :P</p>

<p>Is Princeton Review's raw score/real score pretty accurate? =/
I think I failed the test miserably. -___-" The more questions/answers I read from here the more depressed I get. xD
All I remember was that the lowest to get a 700+ was a raw score of a 45, which is around 12 wrong.</p>

<p>I think I did waaay worse than 12 wrong. I omitted like 7</p>

<p>Okay - does anyone remember the question which asks something along the lines of:
'What do the exclamations imply" in the 'daughter runs away passage?'
I put down conflicting impulses ... I narrowed it down to that and 'confused morals/values'.
I picked impulses because he KNEW the correct thing to do(so no confusion there) ... he just found it hard to do it.
How was this test compared to October's?</p>

<p>This test made me feel like an intellectual fraud.</p>

<p>This test made me feel like an intellectual fraud.</p>

<p>lol, I agree completely. I couldn't have put it better myself.</p>

<p>On the Q, I also put impulses. 90% sure it's right.</p>

<p>^ yeayy
Wait, maybe the curve will be really kind.
October's math 2 was killing, this month, it must be literature's turn. So much for 'standardized' testing ...</p>

<p>I also put impulses because he was cursing the men and then asking God for forgiveness. I don't remember the exact lines, but I'll probably look it up when I get back from school. Almost 99% sure it's impulses.</p>

<p>WHat did the part where he said lord forgive me for what im about to say.. mean?</p>

<p>I think I got so many wrong on this section...This is really depressing.</p>

<p>Hope everyone did better than they thought they did!! Maybe the curve will be really lenient. Or maybe we're just thinking we're wrong.</p>

<p>Who here was scoring above 700 on thier practice tests? And then they took this and now they feel really bad. </p>

<p>I for one thought I fought a beast after taking this.</p>

<p>730 on a practice exam. I would be extremely happy if I got a 700 on the real thing. I think I lost the fight with the beast...</p>