<p>i put record of Forten’s correspondence also</p>
<p>yeah…
but the passage said they need like an account type of evidence, which are diaries</p>
<p>Oh by the way, this would probably be helpful. I took a practice SAT test a couple weeks ago and it had long since lost at the end. The correct answer was something else.</p>
<p>Yeah but a record with his family has nothing at all to do with piecing together his business life.</p>
<p>Idk about long lost since being gramatically correct because I thought “long lost since” is some what ambigious and u really can’t “lose” an artistic style. I think that “long lost forgotten” would be more appropriate.</p>
<p>alright…
wasn there another question about the evidence in Forten passage</p>
<p>eh, i think this discussion has gone to the point of diminishing return…we’ll see december. i think i missed my goal of over 230 by a bit, or just got there if im really lucky, but i hope semifinalist works out. juniors, rejoice! one standardized test completely out of the way…</p>
<p>Ya…i put the family accounts in dairies for that question too, but now I kinda regret bc it seems to be an unpopular answer choice for that question. While I know that that answer choice is probably incorrect, don’t diary accounts give a more “personal” view of Forton than his relations with his customers.</p>
<p>thanks to this discussion, i’ve pm given up on my score but it’d be nice to be a commended student.</p>
<p>forget what i said before…they werent really into a personal view, all they really wanted to know was how he amassed and maintained his fabulous fortune…</p>
<p>I agree with rlaghdcks3, I put family accounts in diaries because the question wasn’t asking about his business life, it was asking about his personal affairs.</p>
<p>There was another question, I think, that asked about evidence regarding his business life.</p>
<p>The passage with the businessman wasn’t about his personal life. It was about his fortune and why he was so secretive about his amount of money, so the diaries answer doesn’t fit.</p>
<p>The last 2 paragraphs of the passage were about separate things.</p>
<p>The second to last paragraph was about the confusing nature of his personal life due to the businessman always telling people “I have business to attend to,” etc.</p>
<p>The last paragraph was about the confusing nature of his business life due to contradicting data and evidence.</p>
<p>The question we are discussing was referring to the second to last paragraph, so I think the diary answer is correct. :/</p>
<p>I think that good portion of the passage was discussing his buisness affairs; however, some parts of it simply stated traits that he had that made him a decent guy. Plus, and I could be wrong on this because I don’t remember the question, I think it was asking what would help researchers piece together information about the man’s life, thus wouldn’t diaries give a more “full” perspective on his life?</p>
<p>It was about his business life and how he was well respected among gentleman in his community due to his business adventures and how he made business a top priority but was involved in other things.</p>
<p>hmm. well all of those silly sat passages have a main idea, and its pretty clear what that is…and im pretty sure it was referring to the line where the phrase was found, and not exactly in that context?</p>
<p>Anybody have a definitive answer on the question asking about what paragraph you would add to the passage?</p>
<p>yeah…
diaries are better than correspondence with customers
so no one rememebr another question about evidence?</p>
<p>ya…but didn’t it state or directly imply that most of the “evidence” complied about the man was some what faulty due to the fact that it had no source, thus diaries would be the most direction line of evidence. Additionally, alot of the discussion about the merchant’s affairs were revolved around “stories” that had been spread around about him (similar to the diary evidence).</p>
<p>nature of danger he faced is the answer to adding a sentence to the paragraph</p>