<p>@gogi24
Are you asking something about the Basset hound question? If so, I answered phlegmatic because the question gave the impression that the dog is difficult to rouse, i.e. the dog is calm in manner.</p>
<p>@byahn1129 i don’t follow your logic. static means fixed.</p>
<p>The stories were not wholly “fixed” but changed every time to fit the social conditions.</p>
<p>I agree with a1rplanes. Static means fixed. Think of physics, static friction means staying still and kinetic friction means moving.</p>
<p>@Kingshrey13 Yeah! Or think of literary terms, like static or dynamic characters.</p>
<p>Did anyone else put “complied to preposterous requests” for the Yo one? Here’s my reasoning as to why I did. I initially put uniqueness but after reading the passage again I realized that was wrong. The uniqueness applied to that paragraph only. However, the narrator stated that he was making a POINT. Why would he be making a point that he was unique? Throughout the whole passage he’s talking about how he kept on answering his daughters questions, how he kept on giving information even though he knew he shouldn’t. The fact that the daughter was asking him all these questions about his life was preposterous and he couldn’t resist himself thus he was complied to answer HER questions. The sentence about the teacher is simply a linking point to the whole theme of the story. The main focus of the passage is not his uniqueness.</p>
<p>@King</p>
<p>If the question deals specically to certain lines, your answer must have its explanation in those lines, not within the passage. Also, a “uniqueness” would imply that he was the only one gullible enough to keep answering questions, which pretty much sums up your point as well.</p>
<p>GoodJobBro,</p>
<p>Unique wouldn’t fit the story then. Also, the question was asking what was the “point” that the narrator was trying to make as stated in those lines…</p>
<p>i do not remember the question about comparing passage 1 and two where this was supposedly the answer: “1. Passage 1 focused on response to words while Passage 2 focused on communication”</p>
<p>can anyone tell me what the question was
i only remember a question comparing the passages that had an answer on that the second author talked about other scientist’s motives</p>
<p>@Kingshrey and @Leinad27
both of you referred to those two questions
so can you guys remember them?
because it seems the me the questions are the same?</p>
<p>CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE OTHER ANSWER CHOICES WERE FOR the “ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION” ONE?</p>
<p>^ I think there was another choice having to do with “proposing a theory” or something. But “alternative explanation” was correct.</p>
<p>^^
Do you remember the exact question?</p>
<p>^ I think it just cited a few lines and asked what the purpose of those lines was.</p>
<p>but do you recall what passage was that? and what were those lines?</p>
<p>It was the first Kanzi passage.</p>
<p>so just to make sure…
readily willing to challenge preconceived notions ← is incorrect. it should be skeptical</p>
<p>im blanking on the “alternative explanation” one so if anyone remembers more about that problem, like alternative answer choices, please post!</p>
<p>“a study on cultural change.” … was another one of the answer choices for that question puzzling phenomenon? because that’s what i put. anyone else?</p>
<p>if any of you could paraphrase the lines for the alternative explanation question, it would be greatly appreciated</p>
<p>Does anyone else remember all the answer choices for the one that asked about the monkey passages? I vaguely recall the “insufficiently skeptical” answer, but I dont think it was correct because I think it said “insufficiently skeptical of human uniqueness”. The author of passage 1 was not skeptical of human uniqueness, that was the author of passage two. </p>
<p>I hope I am not mixing answer choices from different questions, but I recall I put “reluctantly optimistic”. My rationale was that the author of passage 1 said he did not want to be construed as just spending all his time to find flaws with the monkey’s use of language. He seemed to have wanted for science to find out new stuff. But then again, the author of passage 2 would probably perceive this as reluctant optimism, since passage two discussed how scientists were afraid to break down their preconceived notions of human uniqueness.</p>
<p>I agree with bll above. It said insufficiently skeptical, which didn’t make sense because the question had “not” in front of it.
Did anyone else think the passage with yo was much harder than the apes? I don’t recall having any trouble with the apes, but since my yo passage was the last one, I was just ready to leave. Actually, now that I think about it, I only had trouble with one, it was something about the woman knocking her head. I actually sat there trying to come up with the motion she was doing, but I just ended up going with “teasing”. Also, about the random ass questions the teacher was asking…I put to convey his wild teaching style or something, but I felt that couldn’t be right. Anyone else have an answer to either of these?</p>
<p>^You guys aren’t understanding the meaning of insufficently skeptical</p>
<p>The author of passage 2 was sufficiently skeptical in that she knew that human uniqueness may not be so unique after all. She was skeptical of it.</p>
<p>The author of pass 1 wasn’t skeptical enough, because he was hesistant in believing that humans may not be the only smart animals on the planet. He wasn’t skeptical enough, and there, was considered insuffienctly skeptical.</p>