<p>dh, I don’t reecall it saying he couldn’t wait to tell everyone the news. It went straight from left the pie to talking about langford eating the pie.</p>
<p>i agree with dh1234^^ and i put humor then changed it to his honest feelings. i really wasn’t sure but i didn’t feel like there was enough evidence to say that he humored him</p>
<p>@delayed the part that we’re talking about came a few lines before that</p>
<p>The author was making a joke. It went something along the lines of, “In fact, he was so excited to tell everyone the news that he left Langford’s pie lying on the train.” The author didn’t literally mean he was excited. He was saying that he wanted to get away so badly that he didn’t even bother to take the pie.</p>
<p>I don’t think he wanted to get away from Langford. He seemed to have a positive relationship with Langford.</p>
<p>@wulimaster, you just said in the quote that he was excited. as a result, it makes sense that he would be excited to leave and tell everyone</p>
<p>Again, I think that’s too literal an interpretation. Right before, the author mentioned that Langford wanted to write some big compendium on the universe or something and the editor assistant guy is thinking to himself, “Sure… whatever you say.”</p>
<p>If I misunderstood this then I hope I didn’t miss that many questions for it.</p>
<p>i still think it’s that he was excited to be coeditor but idk. what did you guys put for the “humor” question?</p>
<p>I’ve actually read the book where the passage was from in its entirety.</p>
<p>Here is a link to it: [McKay's</a> Bees: A Novel - Thomas McMahon - Google Books](<a href=“McKay's Bees: A Novel - Thomas McMahon - Google Books”>McKay's Bees: A Novel - Thomas McMahon - Google Books)</p>
<p>Granted, it was a long time ago when I read it, but both from the excerpt and my past readings, I think it’s clear that he was humoring Langstroth. He was excited to leave Langstroth. The tone becomes really clear in the last line of the excerpt where they say that Langstroth ate the pie that the assistant left.</p>
<p>It was just like two questions. I could be wrong, of course. </p>
<p>EDIT: USAMOPRO’s analysis is spot on.</p>
<p>It was pretty obvious that he was in a hurry to get away.</p>
<p>Anyone interested in starting to compile a list of consensus answers from each passage?</p>
<p>USAMOPRO- Do you remember from which pages (from McKay’s Bees) our ACT passage was taken? </p>
<p>Has anyone found any of the other passages?</p>
<p>What is the answer for the assistant attitude toward langword?</p>
<p>frustrated but accommodating, or something like that</p>
<p>Prose Fiction: Page 115 to the middle of 117.</p>
<p>Social Science: [John</a> Stuart Mill](<a href=“http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/johnstuartmill/]John”>John Stuart Mill)</p>
<p>Humanities: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (unavailable)</p>
<p>Natural Science: [Biodiversity:</a> a reference handbook - Anne Becher - Google Books](<a href=“Biodiversity: A Reference Handbook - Anne Becher - Google Books”>Biodiversity: A Reference Handbook - Anne Becher - Google Books)</p>
<p>Curve predictions anyone? I thought this was weirdly harder than normal. And Reading is typically my best (34 last time) </p>
<p>I’m think</p>
<p>36 -0, -1
35 -2
34 -3
33 -4
32 -5
31 -6
30 -7
29 -8, -9
28 -10
27 -11, -12</p>
<p>I had Form 71F. The four passages were:
Prose: Reverend Langstroth, who kept procrastinating when he was supposed to write a chapter for a beekeeping book
Humanities: An Indian-American on scents that bring back memories.
Social Science: The British philosopher John Stuart Mill.
Natural Science: Other ways of measuring biodiversity.</p>
<p>My own thoughts:
Prose: This passage was… dare I say… fun to read? There’s some confusion about the assistant, so I thought I’d clear it up: the assistant is in a hurry to get away from Langstroth, who was cheerful, then evasive, then exuberant (for the mood question). The assistant even left his pie on the seat because he was so “pleased” to see the coach to pick him up. So that is the answer.
Humanities: This was also pretty interesting. If the community has any questions, I’d be happy to address them.
The Social Science passage was weirdly fascinating: not at all as boring as I feared. His ideas on utilitarianism, whatever that is, were slightly confusing. Also for the question about his ideas on “harm”, the answer is that freedoms should not be restricted unless they harm others. The passage doesn’t state this, but does say that later politicians quoted this when arguing about tobacco or cigarettes (my memory fails me).
I rushed through the natural science passage, because I was running out of time, but it seemed pretty straightforward.</p>
<p>I think that this test was easier than normal, mostly because I found the passages interesting. The time limit probably shouldn’t pose too much of a problem for most people: I tend to take a long time on the questions and check and recheck them (bad habit). I anticipate the curve to be -1, and my own score to be 33+</p>
<p>oh for the john staurt mill’s “harm” principle question, the answer should be that freedom shoudn’t be restricted unless they harm others. there was some evidence about this when there was a contrast between mill and his father and godfather. i’m not entirely sure though</p>
<p>His harm principle was actually explicitly stated in the passage.</p>
<p>I’ll provide the quote later when I have some time.</p>
<p>The idea behind the quote was, indeed, that freedom should only be encroached upon to prevent the harm of others.</p>