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So I took the September LSAT at Pace University in NYC last weekend. During the test, there was incredibly loud pipe construction above us banging throughout the test, along with an occasional loud hissing sound that lasted for around 10 seconds coming from a mysterious part of the room. It got so loud that during the middle of the test right after we had finished one of our sections, the proctor told us that the LSAC was aware of these issues, and that we could cancel if we wanted to. None of us did.
Although I actually feel pretty good about this test (I was strangely able to concentrate pretty well for some reason), would there be any benefit to me to report the construction issues to LSAC given that I definitely don't want to cancel? Thanks!
I got 8 wrong as well, and I was split between A and E. I think what makes E the better answer choice is that the question asks us to find the answer that exemplifies CULLEN's conception of poetry, not simply what his poetry was like.
Looking at it that way, answer choice A, while mostly correct, implies that the purpose of his writing the sonnet was TO re-create the atmosphere of sixteenth-century English poetry. Nowhere in the passage does it state that his PURPOSE was to re-create the atmosphere of sixteenth-century English poetry. What makes this answer tricky is that the literary critics at the beginning of paragraph 2 attribute this quality to Cullen's "The Ballad of the Brown Girl," but even there it isn't stated as a purpose.
On the other hand, answer choice E doesn't indicate that his purpose is to express feelings about the inevitability of death, but that it is a quality of his poetry. It's not the best choice in the world given that the passage gives a list of topics that Cullen writes about in addition to death, but compared to the other answer choices, this option most correctly exemplifies Cullen's own conception of his poetry.