SAT Gurus: 1 Dispute with Lady Carlotta passage and 1 question. What are your thoughts?

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Question 7: The narrator indicates that Claude, Wilfrid, Irene, and Viola are… Answer is “similar to many of their peers.”

Here’s the relevant text: When we look at the passage itself, she learned that Claude and Wilfrid were delicate, sensitive young people, that Irene had the artistic temperament highly developed, and that Viola was something or other else of a mould equally commonplace among children of that class and type in the twentieth century.

My issue: Viola is the only child who is referred to as “commonplace” however the other three children are not. What do you think?

Question 3: The passage most clearly implies that other people regarded Lady Carlotta as… Answer is outspoken

Here’s the relevant text: Certain of her acquaintances were wont to give her plentiful admonition as to the undesirability of interfering on behalf of a distressed animal, such interference being “none of her business.”

Question: How does this show that she is outspoken?

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You’re misunderstanding. When it says Viola’s qualities are “equally commonplace,” what do you think is their equal? The passage indicates that her qualities are equally commonplace as the other kids’ qualities.

Lady Carlotta is clearly outspoken because she expresses her opinions even when it’s “none of her business” and the passage also shows her doing so–to scold the cart-man who’s abusing his horse. “Outspoken,” after all, means expressing strong opinions (even when nobody wants you to do so).

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