<p>has anyone here ever used their book for lit?
first test i took: 540
second test i took: 620</p>
<p>their questions are unbelievably hard.</p>
<p>e.g. there’s this character in some vonnegut work, her name is Ms. Faust. so the question is like why is her name symbolic? the answer was - get this- b/c she worked for a Mephistopheles. Now, i was lucky to have picked up somewhere that Faust made a pact with the devil and this seemed like the only logical answer, but how the hell is someone who doens’t know faust supposed to answer the question? one i definitely did not get was this one on an exerpt from a play by some guy sheridan and the characters name was mrs. malaprop. well, they blanked out her name like Mrs -----. the question was - what word do we derive from her name? yea, one of the options was malapropism, but how the hell was i supposed to know her name was mrs malaprop? that was the test i got a 540 on.</p>
<p>the 620 was, i guess, a result of reading poetry and going over terms. still, there was this exerpt from an f. scott fitzgerald short story that was asking questions about the characters that could barely - if at all - be inferred from the exerpt. and there was this one from mark twain’s “rouighing it” that asked about the word invested about some flies that were dead in a vinegar cruet. it was ridiculous, like “what meaning is least meant here” and so i chose one like “installing a new ruler” but that was wrong!</p>
<p>w t f???</p>
<p>is this like a barrons thing where, if i do moderately well (620 is decent- not terrible buyt not great eiither) on such a ddifficult test then the actual ting should be a breeze?</p>