Benchmark Assessment Test

4.) Answer: D. What I put :C. Now knowing what the correct answer is I realize the error of my choice.The "vilely phrased" quote is pretentious because it's a round about way of sating Oxford Street. Why not just say Oxford street instead of "the street which borrowed it's name"? And now looking up the definition of pretentious, which means excessive or unjustified claims, I realize that the speaker is pretentious and so is his tone. This may be difficult because if the reader didn't know what vile or pretentious is and how it relates to the speaker it would be hard to understand.
7.) A ; B. Question asks to evaluate the way a particular sentence is used and how it is used in relation to other sentences, which I'm not really good at. I thought it was introducing an exception to the rule that everyone in the world is thinking except England, but that's wrong. I really don't know why it's the wrong answer( but I hope I learn tomorrow!) I also think that the reader had to know specifically what rhetorical and digression means.
9.) E ; A. I chose A because I thought that some the answers have some ti-bit of truth in them, so I chose the more broader answer because that process  has worked in the past. But I do see why the answer is right because reflecting on it this answer is found in the passage.
13.) C. I got this question right. I think the question is difficult because of the answer. Compared to A which is simple. C is very complicated. The combined words of "paradoxical", "inversion" and "conventional " all in one sentence is very confusing. But because I knew what these words meant I applied them to the passage and got it right. Paradoxes are contradictions that are circular. Inversion is like the opposite . And conventions are commonly perceived ideas. The speaker talks badly(inversion) about something everyone seems to like(convention): nature.
21.)D ; B . Grammatical questions are a hassle and are so out of the mainstream norm of level 2 questions it feels tedious to do them. People (me) don't give them any introspection and want to quickly get it over with so they'l go with their first instinct, which may not be right.
24.) E; D. If you don't know what idiosyncratic means you are really in a jam. Idiosyncratic means unique about an individual. The question states which is LEAST idiosyncratic , which is the meter, everything is pretty unique( capitalization, tone, diction).
54.) E ; D. I can't believe I got this wrong. I guess because the reader is so focused on Louisa, the main character being so subtle and quiet, I automatically assumed that Dagget is. Especially because of the sparse dialogue and quiet mood. Dagget is very straightforward and I realize I made a not so smart mistake.