<p>No but impassioned but inconclusive is a better answer because the narrator says he wants a middle ground not two extremes</p>
<p>it’s really a tricky question, and either answer could be right. i think that because several conclusions are made (although not unshakable conclusions), it may not be inconclusive</p>
<p>Can someone tell me the answer to the math problem that had answers like 10√3 and 20√3? I answered 20√3 was that correct?</p>
<p>momo he never says that lol. I’ve given this explanation like 5 times now. Read what samuel posted.</p>
<p>Here’s my try at the Mundane debate. </p>
<p>It’s perfectly plausible that Mundane was the correct choice. </p>
<p>The SAT is a very literal test, not too literal to say things outright however, so it would make sense that the answer choice would not be Romantic, since that is stated outright</p>
<p>STILL</p>
<p>I strongly believe that there is not enough evidence to suggest that she believed the book was mundane before. Saying something is up to your standards does not necessarily mean that it is typical. What if you knew you had high standards, would you not believe the book is much more than typical? So let’s say mundane is questionable. </p>
<p>Now, people are debating over whether or not “dramatic” makes sense for an answer choice. This is a stupid debate. Search dramatic on thesaurus.com, you’ll find words like sensational, vivid, or breathtaking. I think dramatic was a good description of her view of the book after. So, dramatic makes sense. </p>
<p>In this case, she clearly stated that the book was romantic. So in her view the book was a romantic book. Both parts seem difficult to dispute. </p>
<p>You could still say that, the book was really typical. However, my point is that there really is not that much evidence supporting it, when she outright states that she thinks the book is romantic.</p>
<p>So many comments, haha. There are definitely quite a few questions that are debatable. I put inconclusive, though.</p>
<p>I concur with flawless</p>
<p>I remember toward the end of the passage after Ms. Flowers read the book to her, Marguerite was thinking “was this the same book I had read before?” and some things along those lines, implying that the book now seemed much more extraordinary that it had before</p>
<p>I think it is dilettante because a dilettante is “a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.”(Google definition)
The future people will have no real commitment to the arts.</p>
<p>Automaton doesnt sound right for that</p>
<p>Can someone please pm me the googledoc?</p>
<p>Flawless, I read this book in 9th or 10th grade (I had the same English teacher for both years so I don’t remember). We went over each and every line of the book and I distinctly remember her saying that Marguerite had initially thought the book was just like any old regular romantic novel, but after she “heard” the book in the way Mrs. Flowers read it, she couldn’t believe how different and captivating it actually was. What she says (“I wanted to look at the pages. Were they the same that I had read?”) also corroborates the mundane->extraordinary choice and also links back to the essence of the passage – a revelation/significant encounter. Without a doubt, it is mundane to extraordinary. Giving the definitions of the two words doesn’t really advance your argument (we all know what romance and drama are).</p>
<p>It would have been so much better if CB had made it ordinary instead of mundane… Also pretty sure dilettante is wrong because it said they were like zombies</p>
<p>automaton: : a machine or control mechanism designed to follow automatically a predetermined sequence of operations or respond to encoded instructions</p>
<p>automaton still fits</p>
<p>I agree with samuel here – the reference to zombies is best reflected in the “automaton” answer choice.</p>
<p>on google, an opposite of mundane is extraordinary. so…</p>
<p>samuelkim you are looking at the one word. the passage was talking about how people will not any appreciation for the art of making music, but will listen to a manufactured version of music. Hence they would appreciate music but not have a deep appreciation of how its made. This completely agrees with the meaning of dilettante given by google docs.</p>
<p>What if it was a fantasy novel? “She found it up to her standards as a fantasy novel” Would the answer be fantasy…dramatic? No. A romance novel is a genre not a description of how to novel is. Can’t a Romance also be dramatic? Something Mundane cannot also be extraordinary.</p>
<p>the passage doesn’t mention anything about people lacking commitment to or knowledge of music. dilettante doesn’t work</p>
<p>actually, the passage indicates the people learned MORE about music. zombified is too indicative of automatonness, if that’s a word</p>
<p>Yeah dilettante just doesn’t work…dilettante is someone who doesn’t know much about music but pretends like he/she does.
also, you can’t just ignore the word “zombies”</p>