<p>the author said if the fortune tellers have the
real supernatural power they have to be in the Walls street, not in the internet and phone line as 'fortune tellers'.</p>
<p>Also the author cast doubt upon the people who believe in supernatural power by consistantly saying 'but I think...' and 'however'</p>
<p>the passage strongly implied that the author is questioning their
credibility. Therefore the answer should be 100% charlatan...lol</p>
<p>that's what I thought.</p>
<p>is that the answer?
i put that down as the answer</p>
<p>Agreed! I personally thought that one was pretty clear-cut...</p>
<p>^^me too, I'm suprised theere is so much argument abbout this one. Oracle makes no sense to me..</p>
<p>The question asked for a word to describe the fortune tellers. Thus, being oracle.</p>
<p>no it didn't, the question asked for what the author implied in the word "people." COMPLETELY different.</p>
<p>What were the answer choices?</p>
<p>oracle and charlatan are the only two that i can remember</p>
<p>I definately put charlatan. Oracle seemed to me to be a trap. An orale is someone who has great power to seek into the future with prophecies...and the author was clearly denouncing the fortune tellers. Atleast that's what I thought, I could've missed something but when I saw oracle that was like a big flashing trap.</p>
<p>If anyone put oracle, I'd like to introduce you to my friend Joe Bloggs.</p>
<p>^lol. Yea, it was definitely charlatan.</p>
<p>other choices were maverick and dillitante or something</p>
<p>i put charlatan!</p>
<p>To me, the clincher was the word "implied". Oracle seemed to be too much of a direct characterization. And I felt sardonic and charlatan came as a package.</p>
<p>they were talking about the fortune tellers...therefore oracle</p>
<p>I remember the questions but not so much the answers. I remembered seeing oracle and thought that it was too positive a word to use for someone who he thought was a fraud. </p>
<p>So I put baffled, because iirc the line was "what I couldn't believe was how so many people do this when they can make so much more on wallstreet"</p>
<p>That was a paraphrase, but it seemed to me he couldn't understand why they'd want to do that.</p>
<p>WAIT... are we talking about the same question?</p>
<p>it cant be baffled. he was clearly being sarcastic. what he meant was "if these people are really phycics, i wonder why they dont go into wallstreet". he wasnt actually baffled, he was mocking them. he was, using the vocab of the sat, being sardonic</p>
<p>ooooo, wow I read it and I knew he was being sarcastic but I thought I still should put down baffled.</p>
<p>Wasn't the question specifically relating to that quote though, the one I paraphrased.</p>
<p>i don't know maybe. but he was being sarcastic in that quote im pretty sure. otherwise, im pretty sure u are suppose to imply from his tone that he was being sarcastic. and if the real answer is baffled, then something is seriously wrong with the collegeboard</p>
<p>I put charlatan as well.</p>