I receive an official SAT question of the day in my inbox.
Look what shows up on SAT prep questions. Eduardo Galeano. But they forgot about the meaning.
The answer: The reader must provide the connections that bind the independent parts together. I'll say! But after a lifetime of tests and de-emphasis of connection how can she? Aren't we always making connections? Textbooks insist on a particular path of connections.
From SAT question of the day, May 19:
Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Eduardo Galeano’s novel consists of discrete vignettes, so the reader must supply the invisible ------- binding such apparently ------- parts.
A. emotions . . impersonal
B. interpretations . . somber
C. descriptions . . related
D. connections . . independent
E. categories . . cohesive
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Posting Barbara's email response to this:
ReplyDeleterecalling what a Danish businessman told Yeats when they met on ferry to Stockholm (Yeats en route to receive Nobel prize for literature), and Yeats asked
how it was that Denmark had transformed its Posting Barbara's email comment:
population's v. low rate of literacy to nearly universal literacy in the space of one generation; the Danish businessman's
answer being: "by making native language and literature, and teachers, almost everything, and tests and grades almost nothing."
may Galeano's work long outlive Squalid Academic Testiness