November 2009 CRITICAL READING Discussion

<p>On version 1 (the one with free will and Machu Picchu), was eclectic an answer? I don’t think it was on SC but perhaps on one of the passages? I seem to remember putting that, or maybe that was a practice test I took the night before, I don’t know…</p>

<p>hmm… sensory…</p>

<p>does anyone remember the specific wording of the question?</p>

<p>Eclectic doesn’t ring a bell JDong.</p>

<p>Yeah, I’m wrong. It’s sensory. I remember the question specifically refers to that paragraph. Everything describing history was about the paragraph above it.</p>

<p>guys-</p>

<p>please do any of you remember the specific question? i’m freaking out here</p>

<p>I think it was something like, “What is the purpose of the author using words like tabernacle, parable, and blah?” or something like that.</p>

<p>huh. wasn’t the question more like this?</p>

<p>“According to the passage, why does the author enjoy the words referenced in lines 69-69 (sitting in the church…mouth)? PS: Don’t pick the one with “sensory” in it! omnomnom”</p>

<p>i guess i trust myself too much. i was really convinced that i was right on that question during the test. i just want to know how the questions and answers were phrased so that i could pinpoint where i tripped.</p>

<p>Do you know another choice of compliation… commemorate?</p>

<p>@ DoleWhip
I was between rattling the chains and the monkey riding the tiger and I ended up picking the monkey riding the tiger cause it says “and that it is not the dull rattling off of a chain that was forged innumerable ages ago.” Since the passage said that life or whatever is NOT the rattling of the chain, that led me to pick the monkey riding the tiger. That question was tricky though so if someone can explain why rattling the chain is right please do so.</p>

<p>i picked rattling the chain because it said dull rattling and the playing of cards had “drab” before it and dull and drab are synonyms thats what broke the tie for me</p>

<p>CrzyGmer789X2, the passage points out that people would like to believe life is more than rattling a chain. This is just like the second passage, whose author would like to think life is more than playing cards. Then there’s the other reasons that I already explained.</p>

<p>The monkey riding a tiger refers to subconscious decisions (aka Freud). This isn’t the same as pre-determined fate, which is represented by the chain and the cards.</p>

<p>@ Quet,
I think I was high at the time so I answered that question catalog…indoctrined
I wasn’t sure what indoctrined meant (I know…) so I guessed it.</p>