October 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>I got one where the author of passage 1/2 would have COMPLETELY AGREED with the statement in the other passage?</p>

<p>@chair2, pretty sure it was that one</p>

<p>I said the chef tasting the herb; just as the geologist did not know the richness of planetary geography until reading the atlas, so the chef did not discover the richness of the herb without tasting it.</p>

<p>for the 2nd to last question in art passage: the quote was saying that "could it be that the ‘genius’ gold is not found in women and aristocrats?'</p>

<p>Got completely agreed.</p>

<p>What was title of first passage?</p>

<p>the answer was “intense and involuntary”</p>

<p>I got a singer and a song with a familiar arrangement or whatever it was. Probably wrong.</p>

<p>Wry</p>

<ol>
<li> Dryly humorous, often with a touch of irony</li>
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<p>The writer was making a little joke at the nature of all the great writer’s beginnings or something to that effect.</p>

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<p>That’s what I put, because he expected it to be another collection of the same pictures he’s already seen.</p>

<p>I also put synthesize and crystallize.</p>

<p>Hobble</p>

<p>: to move along unsteadily or with difficulty ; especially : to limp along
transitive verb
1 : to cause to limp : make lame : cripple
2 : to fasten together the legs of (as a horse) to prevent straying</p>

<p>Disseminate seems to be a better answer…</p>

<p>@jb:i think i said a singer listening to a similar song because at that point, he thinks what he has seen is commonplace. or am i doing a different question? no i think im right</p>

<p>@jb9211, the author was expecting the pictures that he already saw, yet he something new. the pictures he already saw can be compared to the musician.</p>

<p>@orange peel, yes, the author said that as a rhetorical question, to say that ‘RATHER, they didnt have time to do those things.’ so E is false…</p>

<p>for the comparison one it was the “feast” answer for the title one right?</p>

<p>the question with the hedonist/monk?</p>

<p>So the politician wanted to disseminate</p>

<p>“- spread: to distribute or spread something, especially information, widely, or become widespread” </p>

<p>his opponent?</p>

<p>That makes no sense. It is clearly hobble.</p>

<p>Try this definition of hobble. </p>

<p>restrict somebody’s actions: to put restrictions on somebody or something to slow or prevent progress</p>

<p>yea, i had singer with the rearrangment of an old song because he expected just to see some pictures that were commonplace and that he’d already seen before.</p>

<p>but if it was referring to his reaction to finding that they WEREN’T commonplace and were novel, then, idk. i didn’t see any answers that fit that, though.</p>

<p>“frugal” means “miserly;” someone who is frugal saves their money and doesn’t spend it. the passage didn’t imply that she was frugal</p>

<p>wat was the question to the synthesize/crystalize 1? </p>

<p>and i said ‘puzzled’ not wry because he is astounded that all of these great artists came from rural background</p>

<p>hobble has a meaning that means: “to impede”
I put disperse too, but that means spreading, as in spreading news.</p>

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<p>You forgot another definition of it:</p>

<ol>
<li> To hamper the action or progress of; impede. See Synonyms at hamper</li>
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<p>Disseminate doesn’t even make sense:</p>

<p>1 : to spread abroad as though sowing seed <disseminate ideas=“”>
2 : to disperse throughout</disseminate></p>

<p>Yes, I got “feast”. None of the other choices would have worked.</p>