Official SAT II Literature thread

silveR_hammer
Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:11:20 +0000

shir, i agree with you on the ‘self-sacrifice’ thing, though i was very unsure of it because my perception of arthur was rather contrary to that. however, none of the other answer choices looked good in hindsight and that’s the only one that fit.

i put amusement largely because of the author describing how charlotte hid behind his big frame (or that’s what i read it as). it seemed like an amusing set of events.

i also put the rich and famous thing. i would go along with your lines of reasoning, shiro, but in truth, inference on the SAT is essentially finding what is stated. if the question asked “what can most reasonably be inferred”, then it has to be the jewelry answer because it’s the only thing you can justifiably infer without going beyond the true scope of the excerpt. that is all we can base our reasoning off of.