Official Nov. Literature Test Thread

<p>I think you're talking the about question where one answer was "she is exremely self-confident but senses that she is subject to unknown outside forces" or something to that effect. That was the right answer. She didn't feel lost, though. Do you remember what the other choices were for that question?</p>

<p>I've never taken one of these before, but I really liked a lot of the passages they picked. Especially the sonnet, the iron horse one, the Zora one, and the jazz drummer one.</p>

<p>EDIT: People post really quickly and it makes it unclear whom I'm answering. Hmm.</p>

<p>Yeesh. Did anyone else think that test was horrible? I took it in...June I think, and I thought it was a lot easier. Everyone just seemed so vague and all the passages seemed like they could have multiple meanings. I was thinking of actually canceling my scores, but I've learned that trusting my instinct is not a good idea. Whenever I think I do badly, I do well. When I think I do well, I do badly. </p>

<p>If I got a horrible score this time, but a 750 and then a 760 on the CR in SAT I and 740 last time on the lit, do you think colleges will think I just had a bad day? Or will something like <700 hurt my chances?</p>

<p>oh **** that beating/beat one bothered me... two of the answers were almost exactly the same. anyway, it switched it to present tense, so it makes the reader feel urgency/immediacy or something. </p>

<p>I'm pretty sure the connoisseurs were NOT coming to study art.</p>

<p>what were the answer choices for the furious question?</p>

<p>the one with ironing was insulting I think. the crazy lady thinks the guy that doesn't want her is insulting her.</p>

<p>750 is around -10 off your raw score.</p>

<p>Most colleges only choose your highest scores on both the SATs and SAT IIs.</p>

<ul>
<li>for the trumpet one: Emphasize immediacy.</li>
<li>Zora one: It ties back to the Great Soul from the second paragraph. Basic idea is that all humans are essentially the same being, despite individual discrepancies.</li>
<li>Pygmanlion: I said the one about studying sculpting. It was a damn stupid question, if you ask me.</li>
<li>Pygmalion: Intense.</li>
<li>first one: I picked insulting, because it was the only one that seemed to fit the tone of the passage.</li>
</ul>

<p>lillie vs. oak:
- logge = old people?
- what were the last two lines supposed to emphasize</p>

<p>Logge indeed = old people.
Last two lines make explicit the message of the poem.</p>

<p>melancholydane what did you put for the purpose of the rain in the music passage?</p>

<p>I thought logge= corpse. That the tree fell and was now just a log.</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure it was an old person... "bald"</p>

<p>yeah I put old person too, and yes because of the bald.</p>

<p>For the rain question, I remember thinking about putting the one where it's outside of his head, but at the last moment I think I put something else. I think I put that it's constant.</p>

<p>For the Zora passage, I'm fairly sure that the answer that was like "a colored woman" was the right answer, not "Great Soul." Idea was that she wasn't going to constrain herself to rigid identity, opting instead to be a varied bag of marbles</p>

<p>logge is when its old people. im sure of that. i beleive pgyma was jealous because the girl got better at his craft than he did? it was either that answer choice or the other, which was that he did not have sole possession of her..im not sure, that wa sa tricky question.</p>

<p>colored woman was not the right anwer, im pretty sure it was Great Soul. What wa sthe question again?</p>

<p>Did anyone choose "nostalgia" as the narrator's tone toward the iron horse?</p>

<p>what were the other choices? i was about to put condescending but i remember not putting condescending. i think there was like amused/skeptical? I believe I put something that had the answer "indifferent" in it.</p>

<p>admiring skeptical</p>

<p>hmm that couldve been right, now that i think about it, admiring/skeptical sounds possibly right...he admires the train in the beginning paragraph but develops skepticism later on?</p>

<p>or what about the indifferent one?</p>

<p>i thought he was way too intense in his descriptions and similes for that.
idk...</p>

<p>I put admire/skeptical because the first parts were admiring, but the last few lines he says stuff like 'If only their workers worked as hard" or something like that. He says that twice.</p>