October 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>yo, wat about the one where she compromised and coalesced, or synthesized or crystallized her ideas? i put the former. </p>

<p>and also, when the art author talks about “not coming equipped with sheep”, how is that jeering or mocking? she’s not actually deriding anyone! wouldn’t that be satirical? AP English Lang taught us to examine satire completely, and since all farmers apparently have flocks of sheep, she’s takin shots at it. so that MUST be satirical.</p>

<p>Well numerous questions are being debated even though there is a general consensus on most.</p>

<p>Yeah, and it definitely isn’t satirical nor was it compromised and coalesced.</p>

<p>well… mind explaining how?</p>

<p>Anyone can remind me what’s the Completely agree/partially agree question is about?</p>

<p>hey does anyone know the answer to the iceberg question? … it was the first or second question for the women artist passage. it was something like what did the iceberg symbolize</p>

<p>Iceberg symbolized the mass of people or something since you only see like 1/10 of a iceberg.</p>

<p>for the diversity/novelty question, can anyone remember the other options?</p>

<p>what passage was the diversity/novelty question from?</p>

<p>i think it was from the passage on the geologists.</p>

<p>I think the question about mocking or satirizing was this:</p>

<p>The author said something about how since that story about those two Italian artists (the master finding a genius kid who was just a lowly shepherd), most artists tend to have been kids equipped with a flock of sheep.</p>

<p>The top 2 choices: 1) satirizing rural/rustic conditions or 2) mocking biographical stereotypes.</p>

<p>I’m fairly sure that the above is a good paraphrasing of the question, but my mind’s hazy and I could have missed some big details, so feel free to correct that.
Anyway I said that it was the biographical stereotypes answer, since that paragraph was generally making fun of how all great artists tend to have this same stupid “undiscovered pastoral farm kid” cliche in their biographies, and how their life stories are fabricated. I didn’t think the author had anything against shepherds or farm life, so I don’t see why she would be satirizing that…</p>

<p>Opinions on my analysis?</p>

<p>I interpreted that question exactly like mcgoogly did.
I’m pretty sure the choice was satirizing rural (not even rustic, which you could argue for) conditions, which doesn’t make sense.</p>

<p>What was the answer to the defiant/reaffirmed sentence completion? I think I picked something other than that. I think I picked C, which was ______/confirmed. Does anyone remember the other word? I think it started with a p.</p>

<p>yup, I think that what supposed to be~</p>

<p>so the answer was defiant/reaffirmed? dangit…that one didn’t seem the best to me =(</p>

<p>vocab was really hard, i thought. what was that one vocab question about neptune or some planet, and meteor was a choice?</p>

<p>yo, can someone list the other choices for the “wry” one? i don’t even REMEMBER that question!</p>

<p>but if you think about it, his main point was to ADORE the present, rather than place value in it.</p>

<p>ugh</p>

<p>this thread has fallen apart. people are “100% sure” that their clearly incorrect answer is right. </p>

<p>the last few pages only serve to confuse and mislead.</p>

<p>can someone tell me the anwser to the last question of last passage?it was about the main idea?</p>

<p>@stix
yeah, that’s why I’ve stopped bothering to argue. :stuck_out_tongue:
I agreed with all/most of your answers btw. ;]</p>