<p>Hi. Explanations for these questions please.
This is the first test btw, so it's only found in the Old BB. </p>
<p>Pg. 429</p>
<h1>9</h1>
<p>Answer is D</p>
<h1>15</h1>
<p>Answer is E. Why isn't it D?..</p>
<h1>18</h1>
<p>Answer is A. Why isn't it C, which imo sounds alike and better of the two.</p>
<p>Thank you in advance!</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I have an old BB that I’m looking at and page 429 is a writing section. #9 on that page has an answer of A. There is no #15 or #18 on that page.</p>
<p>Is it a different page?</p>
<p>Opps. I meant 420. I completely gave you guys the wrong page. >.<.</p>
<p>It’s section 8, the one about JErry.</p>
<p>I’ll tackle these first thing tomorrow morning if no one beats me to it!</p>
<h1>9: The implication is in “but at the time I did not think he was imaginative enough to do any damage.” It indicates that at some point in the future, the author learned that Jerry was indeed capable of damage. Before reading any of the answer choices, I can make this inference. I like to do this with almost all CR questions—prephrase an answer before looking at answer choices. Choice (D) is the closest answer to my prephrase. Choice (A) makes no sense as the sentence does not discuss the truth. Choice (B) is wrong because of the first 3 words in the passage: “Jerry was deceitful.” This is an “opposite” answer, a common type of wrong answer: the narrator does recognize Jerry’s deceptive nature. Choice (C) involves knowledge from the remainder of the text. Jerry’s background is not discussed until line 7 (and even then, the narrator is not intolerant). This question must be solved JUST by reading the first sentence and not using any knowledge of the rest of the passage. And choice (E) is wrong because the first sentence is not about what Jerry feels, but what the narrator feels.</h1>
<h1>15: The key here is in “bored, dried up people” and “need to.” For (D), people who pretend to live interesting lives wouldn’t necessarily “need to feast” on a new, interesting stranger. In fact, they would probably act like they didn’t need the stranger, because aren’t their lives interesting enough? Or at least seem to be interesting enough? But someone who is bored and dried up would need to feast on a new, interesting stranger so that they could themselves feel less bored and dried up.</h1>
<h1>18: Shucks. I thought I was going to get away without reading the entire passage. Okay, choice (A): “Passage 1 suggests that identity can be self-created.” Jerry clearly created an identity for himself as a wealthy Bostonian when in fact he was from the “lower slopes” of Boston, a neighborhood which the narrator implies is poor. “Passage 2 contends that [identity] is determined by external and internal factors.” Part 2 of this answer is a little tougher. The external factors are the “university education” and the “taste for esoteric culture.” The internal factors are his feelings connected to his background; he still felt that he was “a child from the slums” and he still harbored a dislike for the very middle-class he was metamorphosing into. As difficult as this answer is to prove, Answer choice (C) is easy to disprove. The first issue is the word “argue.” Where is passage 1 does the narrator set up an argument? To argue something is present a case for it in the face of disagreement. I agree that passage 1 suggests “that the individual chooses his or her identity” but it does not argue this point. This is a prime example of how one word can disqualify an answer choice. Plus, Passage 2 does more than just affirm that identity comes from others. Part of the narrator’s identity came from himself—who he thought he was or at least who he thought he should be as a person coming out of the slums. His issue was that he didn’t belong anywhere anymore; he wasn’t just the person he had thought that he was, but he wasn’t totally the person that others thought he was, either. I would also argue that some of his identity came from his education, which is not a person and therefore doesn’t qualify as one of the “others.”</h1>
<p>Hope this helped!</p>
<p>this passage is really weird. omg</p>