Disastrous Results-Diagnostic Test

      Honestly, I gave myself a headache trying to be a successful genius on this test. As I was trying to be mindful of the time I felt myself failing to be aware of important details and so missed a couple obvious answers. During the first portion of the test in regards with John Donne's " A Validation: Forbidden Mourning" I found it difficult to adjust to the language and the stanzas, which led me to question my answers. Lovers parting? Man leaving lover? Death?. Although I enjoyed the section, I will admit that I read the lyric a couple of times through before I finally began to grasp its meaning. Reading through the brief excerpt of Jane Austen's  Pride and Prejudice made me want to clap my hands with glee  because although I haven't read the book, I've seen the movie about five times so I'm quite comfortable with the characters and their quirks, which proved helpful when answering the questions for that section. But by far, the most stressful and unappealing portion of this test for me, has to be the argumentative essay at the end. I found the language and the topic of discussion to be dull. I couldn't get myself to focus on the importance of the section. The Brahmins. Good Poetry vs. Poetry. Modernism. Civil War aftermath. Crude language. One question that threw me off was question 48  in its questioning of a quote(line 43) about the Brahmins. I got the question wrong(chose C) because I assumed that the Brahmins didn't do anything about the changes in poetry from when Louis Untermeyer  wrote that went to their libraries  due to the changes in political  nationalism and industrial reconstruction.So, when I checked my answers and saw that question 48 was B, I had to frown. I didn't remember reading about them working to prevent the changes in literature. And so there, as can be seen, is evidence that I need to read more thoroughly  even when its the last section. Instead of skimming that section I probably should have read more thoughtfully.