OCTOBER SAT Subject Test: Literature

<p>was observer an answer choice or was it onlooker. Crap, I only remember onlooker.</p>

<p>I think I put observer? Seems like observer and onlooker mean the same thing....</p>

<p>It was onlooker, I don't remember observer being a choice.</p>

<p>Wait what is the consensus for the shadow wind? It's not how the wheat bends (a) i believe?</p>

<p>Yeah it's how the wheat bends.</p>

<p>what were the answer options for what the jasmine represented? and what were the answer options for the question about the theme of the india passage?</p>

<p>@anonymous91, For that shadow wind question, I put that it showed passage of time into Fall.</p>

<p>same here!~
what's the "moves wth invisible blahblah" that people keep talking about???</p>

<p>Hm, what was the exact wording of the question again? Nearly everyone seems to agree it's bending the wheat...including the people in the Dec 07 thread (nobody mentioned Fall or Rain in that thread).</p>

<p>Not to say we are right...but it depends on the exact wording of the question.</p>

<p>Regarding observer/onlooker, the exact word was onlooker, I believe.</p>

<p>I didn't put that, but if it were the right choice, it'd totally bother me since (1) there are no onlookers mentioned in the story and (2) it's not like this onlooker is GOD--who would know how reacted Louisa reacted better than Joe/Louisa themselves? I could accept "narrator" but "onlooker"? And since the story till then was focused on Joe's POV, I was convinced that observation was from Joe too. </p>

<p>Like, this is the only question for which I disagree with majority and feel strongly about, lol.</p>

<p>Why is it focused an Joe's POV? There is a part where it focuses solely on what Louisa is doing. </p>

<p>Also, further thoughts on the wheat?</p>

<p>The quote's like this:</p>

<p>He remained about an hour longer, then rose to take leave. Going out, he stumbled over a rug, and trying to recover himself, hit Louisa's work-basket on the table, and knocked it on the floor.</p>

<p>He looked at Louisa, then at the rolling spools; he ducked himself awkwardly toward them, but she stopped him. " Never mind," said she I'll pick them up after you're gone."</p>

<p>She spoke with a mild stiffness. Either she was a little disturbed, or his nervousness affected her, and made her seem constrained in her effort to reassure him.</p>

<p>It's focused mainly on Joe for those paragraphs.</p>

<p>Hm. I'm really not sure about that one, because I think it could be answered as Joe or as the POV of an observer (not literally...the choice meant a would-be observer). But I don't really see where it "obviously" focuses on Joe...I mean, CB isn't that subtle.... I still think it's observer, esp. given the book as a whole.</p>

<p>Anyways, what did you put for Louisa's mannerisms? idiosyncratic and X or personal and habitual?</p>

<p>Lol, yeah, I don't think CB is too subtle either T_T Anyway, I put idiosyncratic. The word that went along with idiosyncratic was sort of weak, but I thought it fit. Hmm...I didn't really notice "personal and habitual" as a choice, otherwise I'd probably have recollection of considering it.</p>

<p>Criminal
-personal (wrong?)
-flirtatious
-rationalization
-previous knowledge in jewelery
-doesn’t hate rich people .. so what was the answer</p>

<p>Indian Marriage
-both didn't listen to elder man
-jasmine in hair symbolized who she would become
-self serving
-larger context</p>

<p>Fields of golden hay
-wheat harvested and left on ground
-fairy tale
-change is inevitable
-shadows of wind- how they moved with the invisible something something
-imaginary future (for the fair day)</p>

<p>Man + woman in countryside
-country v. city
-“dear man” from woman’s prospective
-wont give up horse- show his country side/ wont give up long time companion
-woman wanted courtly society
-show how man feels</p>

<p>Woman who owns store (Louisa + Guy)
-confided and free
-peculiar and special
-uptight about personal space
-NOT appalled/impatient (debated)
-fairy web shows shes so organized or something
-onlooker
-lace showed whatever
-Louisa: personal and idiosyncratic for work style and behavior</p>

<p>Prosody
-I + III, but others say I + II + III
-camillias tells you that she thinks herself is old
-comparison of man to weather
-what you expect. Vs. reality</p>

<p>books:
-dragons teeth?
-viles means distillation of intellect
-books can have human characteristics
-main point was to more carefully censor books</p>

<p>for the onlooker one, i put that because it seemed like there was an onlooker especially towards the end of the passage where the onlooker's like "if joe had known that louisa felt this way he might not have visited" or something like that, i dont remember the exact wording</p>

<p>also i put idiosyncratic because she wanted the books ordered in a certain way like tailored to her own preferences..idk though</p>

<p>the woman didn't own any store (or at least as far as can be deduced from the text). it only said that she felt like the owner of a china store after a bear walked thru it:)</p>

<p>the choice wasn't personal and idiosyncratic. It was personal and habitual, and then idiosyncratic + X was a different choice.</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure I chose personal + habitual because the other word with idiosyncratic was really bad.</p>

<p>does anyone remember the adjective that went with idiosyncratic? personal and habitual is obviously the right choice, but i dont think i couldve misread the choices like that...so confused now. btw, for the shadow winds things, the passage of time into fall? if anything, its the passage of time into spring or something like that</p>