SAT II Subject Test: Literature (International)

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<p>Any one giving the International SAT II Literature exam?</p>

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<p>I am taking it with SAT Chem. How hard do you think it’s gonna be?</p>

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<p>One of my friends gave it, he found it pretty hard. How was yours?</p>

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<p>They reused the old test for SAT Lit, so dumb :/</p>

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<p>[Chapter</a> 4.3 - A Clergyman’s Daughter - George Orwell, Book, etext](<a href=“http://www.telelib.com/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/prose/ClergymasDaughter/clergydaughter4_3.html]Chapter”>Chapter 4.3 - A Clergyman's Daughter - George Orwell, Book, etext)</p>

<p>What does ‘mean’ in ‘mean anticlericalism’ mean?
A. Cruel
B. Average
C. Small-minded
D. Low-spirited
E. ?</p>

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<p>Small-minded, b/c she had a narrow view of the clergy by saying that they are “only after your money.”</p>

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<p>How much are you guys expecting? Which was your best/worse passage?</p>

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<p>This is the same test as October 2011.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-subject-tests-preparation/1218245-october-2011-literature-post-test-discussion.html?highlight=literature[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-subject-tests-preparation/1218245-october-2011-literature-post-test-discussion.html?highlight=literature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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I took the test cold without ever looking at a lit prep book, so I don’t know how the curve generally is. I’ll be happy with a 670+.</p>

<p>Best passage was the child/darkness one. Hardest one was the poem about the sea.</p>

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<p>What was the answer to the first question on the Child/darkness passage, poignancy or preceding events?</p>

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<p>I think this could’ve been a lot worse. Personally, I’m not an English person, so I was pleasantly surprised that I wasn’t ripping my hair out. </p>

<p>I put preceding events, but I do think poignancy would have worked as well. Neither seemed necessarily incorrect, but I thought P.E. had more evidence to back it up.</p>

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<p>Bless you, you beautiful person.</p>

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<p>I think it was poignancy, there’s no evidence supporting preceding events. The curve is pretty lenient, -4 is 800.</p>

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<p>I put poignancy, and the consensus in October 2011 Lit is poignancy as well.</p>

<p>What was the poet’s attitude towards summer mischief? Accepting?</p>

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<p>I said accepting. It seemed he was encouraging living your life to its fullest while your were young, and I interpreted the summer mischief (in a modern sense, for me, that is) as to go out partying or something. >.></p>

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<p>Was there an answer ‘exhortation’ and one ‘compromise’?</p>

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<p>For the exhortation, that was the last passage, right? I do believe I left that blank. I agree w/ compromise.</p>

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<p>I can’t remember how I justified ‘preceding events’. Maybe it was because I thought the narrator was reflecting on the last time (which I took to be the preceding event) he saw his mother. I put accepting for that question as well.</p>

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<p>I clearly remember not putting exhortation.</p>

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<p>Exhortation sounds as if it could be correct though, as he’s urging the reader to (basically) YOLO. >>.</p>

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<p>It was “Exhorting/Exhortation.”</p>

<p>The narrator’s purpose in the poem is to encourage people to “live for today” and not succumb to caution or compromise. “Exhort” means to “strongly encourage.”</p>