OFFICIAL Literature - January 2013

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<p>I thought it was somewhat difficult. I thought the first passage was rather confusing and the one about the girl going away was as well.</p>

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<p>^ Yeah, I thought the same thing. I skipped those passages and went back to them at the end. I’m nervous though… anyone know the potential curve for this test?</p>

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<p>Well, compared to when I took it in November, it was a lot harder. I don’t really know the curve on that, but I wouldn’t say it was a horrendous curve. So hopefully a pretty good curve?</p>

<p>Also: it was a retest!
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<p>Podsnaps passage:</p>

<p>The Podsnaps lived in a shady angle adjoining Portman Square. They were a kind of people certain to dwell in the shade, wherever they dwelt. Miss Podsnap’s life had been, from her first appearance on this planet, altogether of a shady order; for, Mr Podsnap’s young person was likely to get little good out of association with other young persons, and had therefore been restricted to companionship with not very congenial older persons, and with massive furniture. Miss Podsnap’s early views of life being principally derived from the reflections of it in her father’s boots, and in the walnut and rosewood tables of the dim drawing- rooms, and in their swarthy giants of looking-glasses, were of a sombre cast; and it was not wonderful that now, when she was on most days solemnly tooled through the Park by the side of her mother in a great tall custard-coloured phaeton, she showed above the apron of that vehicle like a dejected young person sitting up in bed to take a startled look at things in general, and very strongly desiring to get her head under the counterpane again.
Said Mr Podsnap to Mrs Podsnap, ‘Georgiana is almost eighteen.’
Said Mrs Podsnap to Mr Podsnap, assenting, ‘Almost eighteen.’
Said Mr Podsnap then to Mrs Podsnap, ‘Really I think we should have some people on Georgiana’s birthday.’
Said Mrs Podsnap then to Mr Podsnap, ‘Which will enable us to clear off all those people who are due.’
So it came to pass that Mr and Mrs Podsnap requested the honour of the company of seventeen friends of their souls at dinner; and that they substituted other friends of their souls for such of the seventeen original friends of their souls as deeply regretted that a prior engagement prevented their having the honour of dining with Mr and Mrs Podsnap, in pursuance of their kind invitation; and that Mrs Podsnap said of all these inconsolable personages, as she checked them off with a pencil in her list, ‘Asked, at any rate, and got rid of;’ and that they successfully disposed of a good many friends of their souls in this way, and felt their consciences much lightened.
There were still other friends of their souls who were not entitled to be asked to dinner, but had a claim to be invited to come and take a haunch of mutton vapour-bath at half-past nine. For the clearing off of these worthies, Mrs Podsnap added a small and early evening to the dinner, and looked in at the music-shop to bespeak a well-conducted automaton to come and play quadrilles for a carpet dance.</p>

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<p>SO MANY PASSAGES. I was hoping for more poetry!! I agree that it was somewhat difficult. The Indian passage and the spider passage were the easiest in my opinion. I think the first and last were confusing and really required the questions to understand. </p>

<p>I’m predicting a favorable curve.</p>

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<p>Was on of the answers on the attic passage that the yellow card and upon face most showed the difference between past and present, or something like that?</p>

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<p>Contrast: young face - yellow card.</p>

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<p>Agreed on this. ^</p>

<p>What did you guys say for the first passage (about Georgina) and how she felt about the party? I think it was the last question.</p>

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<p>I think she thought that it would be boring (can’t remember which option that was)… And what was the whole passage? Social satire/psychological analysis/etc…?</p>

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<p>I didn’t take that option, I took the one with the old letters vs yellow card :S how does the young face contrast with the yellow card to show the differences between past and present? Wait, was the card yellow of age and not of colour…? Because I understood it to be the latter - <em>panic</em></p>

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<p>I think I may have said social satire (because they were looking to throw out some of their laundry list of friends with a party?). </p>

<p>The yellow to the card represents how old it is (things get yellow when they age), so the present. The face is young, so it represents the past.</p>

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<p>Actually, after the test I was cursing the college board’a wording, or maybe the writer’s because “yellow” could mean that it was yellow to start with or that it is yellowED from age…idk</p>

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<p>However, I did just find this <a href=“http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-61yxiWv1KKQ/ThEuUgnZKrI/AAAAAAAABdY/Y_EOthvqbUY/s1600/Poston-ID-card.jpg[/url]”>http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-61yxiWv1KKQ/ThEuUgnZKrI/AAAAAAAABdY/Y_EOthvqbUY/s1600/Poston-ID-card.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>It’s not Canadian but I’m assuming its similar, and it is indeed, not yellow. (Yet anyway)</p>