<p>For the punctuation passage, I was torn between A and E – that is, until I fully read answer choice E (learning to drive!). The purpose was to instruct?</p>
<p>highopes they don’t want you to interpret that phrase in context to the whole passage, just that phrase. So it doesn’t at all suggest his importance in business. There are many unimportant people who take and give loans lol</p>
<p>For the passage where it talked about the african american guy who was a good business man, what was the answer to…</p>
<p>The use of “massive” in lines… says…</p>
<p>i said “a lot of people in the african community” or the size of the african community</p>
<p>did anybody else get this?</p>
<p>it said they had to take a “massive” census</p>
<p>I thought ‘massive’ meant important information to historians, but apparently the question was not focused on the word itself, but the context of the word in the paragraph. I think people came to a conclusion that the answer was ‘discrete’ or something.</p>
<p>I’m still unsure about the giving and taking of loans question…</p>
<p>If they didn’t want you to interpret it in context, why even read the passage? You have to think about why the author included that portion in the passage, and it pretty clearly wasn’t meant to show his instability…since the whole point was that he was revered by all as an amazing businessman.</p>
<p>For the massive census one, I put that it showed his balance of his interests, or something like that. Because he supported the politics but he had to opt out of the census to avoid making a bad business move.</p>
<p>I thought the discrete one was a different question? Where the answer was “his sense of discretion”? But now that you mention it, I think you’re right. The balance of interests might have been the answer to another Q…they were all so similar for that passage</p>
<p>do we have a compilation yet?</p>
<p>Does anybody remember chosing it showed the large number of africans in the community?</p>
<p>Okay…so that passage was about a MASSIVE CENSUS. The REASON they did this census was to see how much money Africans were contributing to the society…</p>
<p>When it said…those people had to take on a “massive” census…the qs… said what does the term “massive” indicate…</p>
<p>and i said a large number of Africans in the community…isn’t that right?</p>
<p>Was there really a question asking what the word “massive” indicated? What were the answer choices?</p>
<p>edit: no, there wasn’t</p>
<p>yes…i’m sure…i think…</p>
<p>it said they took or went on to take a “massive” census</p>
<p>No, because the reason the paragraph about the census was included in the passage about James Forten was to illustrate the conflict of interests between his politics and his business. How many Africans were in the area wasn’t important.</p>
<p>It asked why the part about the “massive census” was included, I’m pretty sure. Not why they used the word “massive”</p>
<p>I thought discrete and balance of interests were the same one?</p>
<p>sense of discretion was another question…and that was the answer…i got…</p>
<p>it was like…when the guy refused to tell the people…the truth…or how much money he really made…</p>
<p>he was using his sense of discretion…</p>
<p>i agree with highopes. the question did not stress the importance of massive. It simply showed that the guy (i think his name was forten) participated in the census but was not as vocal as the others because he needed to balance the politics with his business.</p>
<p>I had one answer “sense of discretion” and one “shows the balance of his interests” but I don’t know which q’s they went with… :p</p>
<p>What were the answer choices for the discretion?</p>
<p>jeez…this critical reading was intense…so many controversial qs…</p>
<p>i hope we have a nice cushion to fall on…for our curve…</p>
<p>I’m still unsure about the taking and giving loans question and the scattered points in the brain … :(</p>
<p>Scattered points I thought was the complexity of the brain (I thought the whole passage was on the complexity of the brain!), but many said “incomplete sensory data”. I was almost sure taking and giving loans was the importance of his role… but now I’m uneasy.</p>
<p>Can someone inform me of the answer choices of the discretion question?</p>