<p>What about the ending to the balldancing play?</p>
<p>Did it serve to return them to their normal occupation or did it bring back reality?</p>
<p>seems like tht's the correct choice :)</p>
<p>and can u believe this guy???
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<p>back to their mundane stuff?</p>
<p>mundane, yes. </p>
<p>what about those questions on "The Sheaves" about the golden-haired girls? i remember "beauty and impermanence"</p>
<p>i bubbled the "having independent life" thing</p>
<p>Yup I went for beauty and impermanence too, he spoke very highly of them hence beauty, yet he was aware that they'd be taken away soon, hence impermanence</p>
<p>the call at the end of the balldancing scene seemed to bring them back to reality</p>
<p>yup u guyz r right abt beauty and impermanence :(</p>
<p>wut abt the ques where one of the choices had sth to do with looking into "stella's face"?</p>
<p>first i actually put that arthur wanted to make himself appear not foolish ... as he was concerned about his maladies being perceived as not simply idiosyncratic but just... ridiculous hence he asks charlotte if she too has these maladies (but perhaps the truly maligned answer works as well)</p>
<p>second for the first wheat question did anybody else interpret it as simply imagery ... that the winds represented just the swaying of them (A)</p>
<p>third when you guys say "bring back to reality" was that the answer choice talking about the sudden end of their dreams about world peace and back to ... whatever?</p>
<p>fourth why is the knowledge that the author's mother already dead important? (i put... makes the rest of the story seem unique ... since it stuck with her MORE than the image of her mother dying)</p>
<p>fifth how does the narrator portray arthur ... cynically?</p>
<p>and finally.. why does charlotte answer in the way she does... to distance herself?</p>
<p>Cynically is what I went for, and for the ballroom one I went for end to world peace blah blah</p>
<p>Also what is the relationship between Charlotte and Arthur?</p>
<p>recently encountered whatevers</p>
<p>recent acquaintances i think</p>
<p>and ... what that one quesiton generalizing the passage on the wheat:</p>
<p>i put the answer as ... it goes from something to... fantasy? or maybe the question was ... which of the following is this most similiar and i put down fantasy</p>
<p>ok cool ... hey you guys get back on top and see if you relate / disagree / can answer any of the other questions i posted</p>
<p>i put general description to something about simile</p>
<p>i think i went with simple imagery with the winds too..</p>
<p>"mundane" instead of back to reality</p>
<p>the others i dunno... i think i'm wrong :(</p>
<p>^^ i think i did the same as silver_hammer on tht one</p>
<p>I put "Mundane" also for the play part. </p>
<p>I also put Charlotte wanted to distance herself. And I was struggling with how the narrator treats Arthur. I put "amusement" <em>cringe</em> I was searching for something like "condescenation" (spelling!!!) but I couldn't find it and cynicism didn't really do it for me. </p>
<p>The others I messed up.</p>
<p>(Thanks, aaron56.)</p>
<p>Anybody realize we're breaking that contract with the CB.com about not discussing the SAT II including email and Internet...? ;)</p>
<p>take a look at the first couple of pages... they seem to have broken the contract an year in advance!! ;)</p>
<p>Oh my God...this was an old SAT II Lit test from a year ago???? :O</p>
<p><em>wishes I could travel back in time and taken it then and so then research the poems and get feedback from English teacher</em></p>
<p>GRRRRRR.</p>
<p>I found the Arthur-Charlotte passage and the Sheaves poem maddeningly difficult. The Prosody, The Thief, and the Ballroom Play were relatively easy. </p>
<p>A few question that come to mind...</p>
<p>1) Is the thief a naturally violent person? I said that he detested the rich and powerful because in the passage, it said that the thought of killing the little child instantly struck him with fear. Also, he talks ill of the "vain" mother and the "inattentive and flirtatious" maid. I hate these kinds of questions, where it seems like a 50/50 crapshoot. </p>
<p>2) What were the thief's "first thoughts", that were pushed away by the thoughts of his newfound bounty? I put the fear of getting caught, because he was trying to find a public place where he could get lost in the crowd and blend in or something. Or it could've been the thoughts of murder. Again, feels like a crapshoot.</p>