It has happened to me twice now that I read a passage and remembered that it appeared on some sort of English state exam or SAT. First was Anna Karenina and the second Wives and Daughters. Both times, now that I have the context of the beginning of the book, I realize how grossly I misinterpreted them and probably got those questions wrong! And back then, I actually thought they wrote all those passages themselves for the exam, I never realized they were from actual published literature!
Has this happened to anyone else??
by SquirmleQueen
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When I took the eleven plus, it used an extract from Hound of the Baskervilles… which would have been good, as the questions were fairly easy, except that was the book I had been reading myself, and it completely spoilt the ending!
I was asked to read a passage for an eye exam once, and recognized it from the autobiography of Ben Franklin, which I had recently read. The eye doctor had never thought about the source of the passage and was mildly interested.
The beginning of White Noise was on a practice SAT I took. I think I read the book a year or two later, which is when I realized it wasn’t written for the test.