<p>I don’t see how sneered…hodgepodge was wrong. The sneered was about the critics comments and then hodgepodge was pertaining to the mixed elements of whatever was created, if I recall correctly.</p>
<p>hodge·podge
noun
a heterogeneous mixture; jumble.</p>
<p>sneer
2. to speak or write in a manner expressive of derision or scorn.</p>
<p>Yeah I’m going with Jtownap. The only doubt I had about that question was sneered but according to dictionary.com it can mean to belittle.</p>
<p>Yes. I knew every word for the question. It was definitely not hodgepodge. Why would the critic sneer that it was more than a hodgepodge if it was indiscriminating?</p>
<p>I don’t know the critics’ intentions :P</p>
<p>But hodgepodge was the noun that best described the eclectic music that the album contained?</p>
<p>does anyone else remember the math question that asked what is the value of k if ax+bx=c equals y=mx+k
The answer choices were a/b, -a/b, b/a, b/c and c/a or something like that.
It was question 19 of 20.</p>
<p>Hahahaha sorry Jtownatp I had gotten like 6 hours of sleep before the test because I was so anxious and I don’t remember ANYTHING from the answers sorta. So maybe that grand canyon one was from a different question so dont take my word forint :P</p>
<p>Yes, but why would the critics sneer? I was looking at this problem for at least 3 minutes, so I’m almost sure that the answer was not sneer–hodgepodge. That was my first choice, but as I looked carefully again, I realized that I added an imaginary “nothing” in the sentence.</p>
<p>I’m not sure 
But I don’t think reprise would fit as a good described of the music :/</p>
<p>Grr sorry I hate typing on the iPad I meant *describer</p>
<p>As a musician myself, i can tell you that reprise is a common term used to describe music. Reprise is like a rearrangement.</p>
<p>" It was ???–reprise. Noting that the album indiscriminately drew upon blues, rock, and bebop, the critics ____ that it was (nothing) more than a _____.
I think many people added the imaginary (nothing). " </p>
<p>If the sentence was "Noting that the album indiscriminately drew upon blues, rock, and bebob, the critics _____ that it was more than a _____. then reprise wouldn’t work for the second blank.</p>
<p>If they are saying it is MORE than a reprise (reprise meaning 2. Music -a repetition), then that would not make sense because they used the word INDISCRIMINATELY early in the sentence which has a negative connotation to it (adjective not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment). They wouldn’t say it was lacking in care and then be positive about it…</p>
<p>I believe the word nothing WAS in the sentence. </p>
<p>Noting that the album indiscriminately drew upon blues, rock, and bebop, the critics <em>(sneered)</em>__ that it was nothing more than a <em>(hodgepodge)</em>___.</p>
<p>The only way reprise would work is if the word nothing WAS in the sentence, AND the first word fit the blank well, and we don’t even know what that word was…</p>
<p>I repeat that I spent a good amount of time on this. “nothing” was not in the sentence. I can tell you for sure.</p>
<p>Nothing WAS in the sentence. I will bet you 100 dollars its sneered–hodgepodge.</p>
<p>Indiscriminate: Done at random or without careful judgement</p>
<p>Yes but if nothing wasn’t in the sentence, what you said would be incorrect too… and nothing else made any sense.</p>
<p>Indiscriminately does not have to be negative. It can also mean “not selective”. Since the album was not selective, it was more than a reprise. (it was rather like a hodgepodge). I can see why people would choose that choice, but I can tell you that if CB didn’t make a mistake, “nothing” was not in the original sentence.</p>
<p>Lol. I’m quite confident that “nothing” was in the sentence.</p>
<p>Not selective has a negative connotation.</p>
<p>Midwestern State University is not selective in it’s admissions.
Northwestern State University is selective in it’s admissions.</p>
<p>And again, “Since the album was not selective, it was more than a reprise.”</p>
<p>Since something is not selective, it was more than a repetition? That doesn’t make any sense. The sentence may not have had nothing in it as you say, but reprise doesn’t make sense in the sentence if it didn’t. I don’t see how that can be argued, CB wouldn’t have an answer that didn’t make sense in the sentence.</p>
<p>“Since the album was not selective, it was more than a repetition.”</p>
<p>Btw, I still remember the sentence as having the word nothing in it. If other people can confirm that it didn’t then maybe we can try to figure out which of the OTHER three answer choices (that no one remembers) is correct.</p>
<p>I dont remember what i put but it was something like proportional…~~ :((</p>
<p>Was the vocabulary harder than usual or did I just do poorly on it for this test due to unlucky word choice?</p>
<p>Let’s consolidate the CR answers:</p>
<p>Sentence Completions:
<p>Are those correct for this version of the test?</p>
<p>Then here are some CR answers:</p>
<p>Physics Passage:</p>
<p>1) subtle or commonplace?</p>
<p>Dolphin Passage:</p>
<p>1) Overstated?//?I think the question was like how would the author of passage one feel to the statement of dehumanizing by the author of passage 2
2) What did author 2 and the people in passage 1 of the dolphin passage agree with? It was either a) people strive for self improvement or b) people take an active role in shaping their destinies or c) something like “people respond badly to the incentive thing” </p>
<p>Behavior Passage:</p>
<p>1) tone was vexed or enraged</p>
<p>Japanese Calligraphy:</p>
<p>1) impromptu
2) mindset of character
3) he had new responsibilities and no time</p>
<p>Grand Canyon passage:</p>
<p>1) the million who saw it had a one in 1 million chance to see what the explorer saw, OR the benefit and seeing it is fixed ?
2) for the question comparing a situation to the Bostonian man’s reaction to the grand canyon? did anyone say a CD that sounds different than a concert?
3) it was that tourists won’t see the same value of the canyon as the Spanish explorer cause most tourists have an idea of what the grand canyon is. So they don’t see the same value in the canyon as the explorer.
4) where it asked you what the 1 million people seeing the equivalent to what the explorer who found the GC saw? I put for the answer “People had a one in 1 million percent chance of seeing what the explorer saw”… IS THIS CORRECT?</p>
<p>Not sure which passage this was:</p>
<p>1) There was this one short passage about some guy who was complaining and one of the questions was what the tone of the other person was. I think appreciative was the answer; anyone remember if that’s right? Yes it is! I put appreciative!
2) What did you put for #1 on same passage? (the contrasting question) I put traditional & modern</p>
<p>random answers that I dont know which passage they go with:</p>
<p>2) wrong but inherently plausible
3) flippancy
4) aloofness (wrong, but I don’t remember what I put for that one)
5) disappointed
6) surprised
7) ironic to underscore… (wrong but I don’t remember what I put for that one)
10) drone (this is wrong, don’t remember what is correct)</p>