<p>So are we still unsure about “wry amusement” vs. “feigning innocence”? I’m positive that “wry amusement” is the right answer…</p>
<p>Man, I don’t remember anything from the nomads passage. That went by like a blur.</p>
<p>^@zenythz
yeah, i think so, until we have some other people say what they put.</p>
<p>i’m pretty sure it’s wry amusement.</p>
<p>It wasn’t “feigning innocence” because the sentence that they referenced to was more humorous; the one about innocence was like 2 sentences before and out of context.</p>
<p>anyone remember the sentence completion question
that talked about the politican trying to improve his image?
i think one of the choices included “complicit”</p>
<p>yes–i’m pretty sure the the answer was something about earning sympathy so he casted himself as the hapless inheritor of mismanaged finances(??)</p>
<p>alright-- it is impossible that its wry amusement. the buyers are sincerely hoping to trick their viewers…now, the painter is looking at his customers with wry amusement, especially since he did those tricks.</p>
<p>it wasnt feigned innocence because it said the people would not lie if they were asked whether he paintings were genuine or not…so they wouldnt fake that their painting was not a copy of the real thing</p>
<p>no, it said that people when showing others the paintings would often tell them that they were genunine when in fact they were fake-- heres a quotation “They would be unwise to do so”</p>
<p>@jackbobo, that was discussed before - hapless was the second word in the sent. completion, don’t remember the first. go back a few pages.</p>
<p>i had writing experimental.</p>
<p>The CR passages that were real were the one about the job, monads, rock music, and organic food.</p>
<p>it said it would be uniwise to say that they were genuine</p>
<p>for hapless first word was casting</p>
<p>exactly! it would be unwise to say they were genunine…which is what his clients were doing</p>
<p>i started a vocab section, thinking at the first 2 or 3 were going to be easy as normal…and i couldn’t get the first one! it was so frustrating! does anyone recall the question better?</p>
<p>it had to do with a girl and her father, she was ____ because he was _____ or something like that</p>
<p>no im pretty sure they werent…i had an extra 5 minuets to look just at this question and im pretty sure i didn’t misread that or else i would have chosing feign innocence</p>
<p>i guess we’ll just have to wait and see =)</p>
<p>hahaha same ds143…that was question 1 and it had my confused for a second the wording was weird but i think the answer was limiting…independence</p>
<p>yeah the one about this politician who listens to both sides…i got absolutist…indecisive</p>
<p>yay</p>
<p>^ i’m pretty sure it <em>was</em> feigned innocence. i also had a few minutes to look at it and although the general <em>tone</em> is amused or humorous, the characters in the narrative were <em>not</em> trying to achieve amusement when the board members were tricked.
but yes, as you say, we will have to wait and see. good luck!</p>
<p>To those of you arguing the wry vs feigned question, here’s my opinion: This may seem shallow to some of you, but typically with questions like these where we are asked to assess a certain tone/atmosphere, there is no need to analyze. At this point, we’ve analyzed the hell out of this question and, as a result, have moved further away from consensus. When CB asks questions like these, usually the answer can be found by simply looking at the “buzz words” around the area/context. If I remember correctly, the context included words such as “smile”, “engage”, and some other variation of the word “amuse”. Simply by glancing at the context, it was pretty clear that the atmosphere presented was slightly sardonic and amusing.</p>
<p>I’m 100% sure the answer was wry amusement.</p>