<p>LOL That is beyond funny…such a random paragraph. Gogo humorous ~_~</p>
<p>13 more days till the scores come out…</p>
<p>see. that guy isnt deriding anyone, hes tryna be funny</p>
<p>^ ^agreed.</p>
<p>he is deriding the superficial tourists who know nothing about shakespeare</p>
<p>What was the full “humorous” answer?</p>
<p>he might be poking fun at those tourists(although the comment is not explicitly directed towards anyone), but he’s certainly not deriding them. A derisive comment would be like
“The tourists who visit his home are so stupid that they probably don’t even know that he wrote plays.”</p>
<p>Choklit do you remember the full “humorous” answer. The validity of this choice is contingent on the rest of the answer; not just the word humorous.</p>
<p>that question had all one-word answers</p>
<p>Are you sure? I might be thinking of a different question then, do you remember the question?</p>
<p>pick the word that best describes the last sentence of this passage…</p>
<p>“Stratford, Shakespeare’s home town, has become a place of pilgrimage only slightly less sacred than Mecca, with American tourists waddling reverently around the spectacularly tasteless cathedral of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. An impressionable few of them are even moved to doff their baseball caps or discard their ice creams. Shakespeare’s familiar high-domed head, an image that is quite possibly not him at all, has adorned everything from TV beer commercials to the £20 note. He is the presiding genius of the national spirit, a kind of Churchill in a neck ruff. Without him, industries would crash and ideologies crumble. It is even rumored that he also wrote plays.”
-taken from TheNation.com</p>
<p>hahaha you found the actual passage, sweet!</p>
<p>^evidence that genius is the answer.</p>
<p>genius of the highest degree? maybe… but not definitely</p>
<p>The ‘genius’ and the ‘humorous’ questions are different.
The last sentence controversy is between “humorous” or “derisive”. This question did not have the words “humorous” and “derisive” only, however. Each choice had a sentence following a main word. So, at this point, the answer depends solely on that.
The ‘genius’ controversy 2-3 possible answers from what I’ve seen, and can not be answered with just this second passage since it asked about the first passage also.</p>
<p>^I was joking. Yes wantivy, i remember the answers being phrases and not single words. Anyone recall the full answers?</p>
<p>Does anyone remember any phrases that could help to google the first shakespeare passage? Anything as little as “2 to 3” or “booming business” could help (i’m not sure of either of those though).</p>
<p>Also, are we sure that what I found is the exact last paragraph of the 2nd shakespeare passage? If so, is it humorous or derisive (it seems so clearly one way to me now that i cant believe i would not have chosen the choice i think it is now based on this being the complete last paragraph)?</p>
<p>im pretty sure it was derisive, although i put humorous. </p>
<p>i think it’s that there is still mystery concerning shakespeare: “Shakespeare’s familiar high-domed head, an image that is quite possibly not him at all” and “It is even rumored that he also wrote plays” both play on the fact that he is so important yet so mysterious.</p>
<p>Do I just have a horrible memory or does everyone on this forum just have a superior memory?! I can’t even recall 90% of these questions.</p>
<p>almost only 8 more days!!!</p>