<p>It was definitely “mocking conventional biographies of artists” and having a “wry” tone.</p>
<p>wait no he says the genius has to be cultivated or something</p>
<p>Well I had it narrowed down to:</p>
<p>A) Introduced an (interesting or something like interesting or new) thesis.
B) Historical Speculation.</p>
<p>Also, it was one of the last questions so it might not be the obvious answer. He was wondering what that guy would think of the modern uses. Sounds like a thesis to me more so than historical speculation.</p>
<p>Did anyone put emphasize novelty and variety of the whatever in the universe one.</p>
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<p>Anyone remember the other answer choices for this question?</p>
<p>yeah that’s what i put skyhigh</p>
<p>yes, to emphasize novelty</p>
<p>and the one where the earth was viewed from space, the answer was like “because it wasn’t like the detail geologists studied” right?</p>
<p>Yeah, I put novelty and variety.</p>
<p>Agreed. Also, was he mocking contemporary biographers? Sixteenth century isn’t very contemporary.</p>
<p>The answer has “historical speculation”; it seems a bit obvious, but the author is clearly speculating as to what Mercator would have said had he seen the modern usage of his creation.</p>
<p>Yeah, I put emphasize novelty and variety for one of the universe questions.</p>
<p>Chair 2: I put taht also.</p>
<p>It was conventional, not contemporary.</p>
<p>No, it said “mocking CONVENTIONAL biographies”, not contemporary.</p>
<p>And for the geologist one, I got details.</p>
<p>for that one about the boy… was he annoyed or angered about the situation he got into or more ashamed? the question was something like that. those were the answers i was leaning towards</p>
<p>if we had the passage the answer would be clear.</p>
<p>immediately identifyable is correct.</p>
<p>also I put wry, mocking, and historical speculation.</p>
<p>what was the variety and novelty question?</p>
<p>answer my question from the previous page. It was the second to last question to the end of the passage about the boy who changed names</p>
<p>“what was the variety and novelty question?” second…</p>
<p>I still disagree with historical speculation. He didn’t wonder what Mercator would do, he put up the idea about alien planets being simliar to an ancient earth.</p>