<p>r u sure the reference didnt end at</p>
<p>"This might sound rather humdrum. Yet another view of Jupiter’s giant red spot? One more close-up of Saturn’s auroral rings? Mars, as we know it so well, still a rusty, windswept, and boulder-strewn surface? Such was the visual chorus I expected to find, a coda of images tantamount to photographic clich</p>
<p>The herb/song question depends on what it was actually asking…I’m pretty sure it asked for the narrator’s reaction to what he expected, not after he saw the images.</p>
<p>Okay here’s an attempt at a synthesis taken from sky high</p>
<p>Confirm/Deny</p>
<p>Vocab
Inhospitable
Entranced…lexicon
Hobble
Synthesized… Crystallized
Polymath
captious… edifying
satellite
slapstick
recrimination
defiant… reinforced</p>
<p>Chart
Compliant
Wry?
Admiration?
Mocking? Or jeering?
immediately understandable?
full time endeavor
women and aristocrat’s social position
rustic circumstances
independence?
explain reaction?
surprised the work is finished?
intense and involuntary?
singer listening to a similar song?
title - feast?
native americans- important to everyday life
worth to obtain
usefulness in modern technology
genius is not specific to a type of people</p>
<p>I got herb too…</p>
<p>what is this whole modern technologies thing?</p>
<p>I thought it was something else, about relating the past and present.</p>
<p>A reaction normally takes place after the fact. I think that the geologist was delightedly surprised about what he expected to be boring and old, like the chef may have expected a boring spice but been pleasantly surprised by the herb. Whatever explanation you use, his reaction is akin to trying something new, as he sees something in a newly fantastic aspect.</p>
<p>How can you people remember those quotes word for word? As I read them, I remember those words, but that’s crazy! I put singer…lyrics, because it was asking about his reaction before he went deeper into the book and saw the “universe.” Besides, a chef could taste a new herb and it could be a bad experience, but here it is new AND good.</p>
<p>I think it depends on where the line reference ended</p>
<p>Yep it is the expectation (expecting to see something familure and dull) not what he experienced (which if they had asked that would have been the herb).</p>
<p>omg why does CB make these questions so unclear?</p>
<p>The answer is singer</p>
<p>the chef thing would be right but it wasn’t part of the included line references.</p>
<p>The point, however, is that it is new. The arrangement of the same mundane melody may be slightly different, but in all likelihood is the same “humdrum” song; the piece is about the geologist recognizing something new, the awesome geological features of the planets in the pictures.</p>
<p>The chef/herb; singer/arrangement one was tricky
I said singer arrangement though because the passage was:
"This might sound rather humdrum. Yet another view of Jupiter’s giant red spot? One more close-up of Saturn’s auroral rings? Mars, as we know it so well, still a rusty, windswept, and boulder-strewn surface? Such was the visual chorus I expected to find, a coda of images tantamount to photographic clich</p>
<p>Andie has it.</p>
<p>But the questions asks… oshi- not supposed to discuss that n_n</p>
<p>it’s singer, man. if you’re positive about it then okay. ignorance is bliss!</p>
<p>ah for the “impact on modern technology” one i put something about it being a precurser.</p>
<p>guess I got that wrong? :(</p>
<p>and what was the consensus on that whole women and aristocrats (2nd to last question) debate?</p>
<p>that the qualities of artistic genius are not inherent to certain groups</p>
<p>I thought the CR was much more difficult than anything I’ve seen before. Some questions were very multi-dimensional. Sometimes I didn’t see the reason in choosing one over the other because both fit. I’m hoping the curve is generous. I saw here that someone said -5 = 740. Is that normal? That seems a little high. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>@chair</p>
<p>Was that choice E?</p>
<p>It’s possible -5 equals 740, it really depends on how people in general have responded to it and how many they got wrong. It’s not so easy to say what the curve is. -5 has historically been 760 on some tests.</p>