AAMC sample verbal question

[lazyindy]

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https://www.aamc.org/students/download/85188/data/vrsampleitems.pdf

for question 106, "this is driving me around the bend.." I thought Madness is what drives people and is the vehicle, but the answer is location, can anyone elaborate?

for question 107, I don't know how to answer that question by reading the passage alone. Nothing in the passage suggests to the correct answer B, any help here?

 

[sshah92]

https://www.aamc.org/students/download/85188/data/vrsampleitems.pdf

for question 106, "this is driving me around the bend.." I thought Madness is what drives people and is the vehicle, but the answer is location, can anyone elaborate?

for question 107, I don't know how to answer that question by reading the passage alone. Nothing in the passage suggests to the correct answer B, any help here?

"This is driving me around the bend."
"This is driving me insane."

Replace "insane" with "mad," and you'll understand the relationship. It's testing our idiomatic comprehension, which is slightly unfair, but the VR is all about nuances

 

[jtran7]

https://www.aamc.org/students/download/85188/data/vrsampleitems.pdf

for question 106, "this is driving me around the bend.." I thought Madness is what drives people and is the vehicle, but the answer is location, can anyone elaborate?

for question 107, I don't know how to answer that question by reading the passage alone. Nothing in the passage suggests to the correct answer B, any help here?

For question 107 from the last paragraph I can sense that the author is taking a cultural relativistic stance going at length to explain why they would use that kind of metaphor and why it is reasonable to do so. Therefore I would eliminate anything that bluntly suggest I'm right and your wrong which is more of an ethnocentric point of view.

so...

For Answer A I eliminated it because it uses the word attack (i'm right your wrong)
For Answer C isn't really being culturally relativistic (once again explaining that i'm right your wrong)
For Answer D being irrational suggest i'm right your wrong (they are not willing to accept that the alternative is a possibility)

however for Answer B there is nothing that suggests the authors sees his view as the only right one but rather he is just defending his point of view

to me it feels like the best answer even if its not be the clearest

please if anyone else has a different opinion leave a post!

 

[TechToDoc]

For 106, madness is the destination, not the vehicle. If madness were the vehicle, where would you be going? How could madness be a road? To where? Also, for this metaphor, I think a force and a vehicle are essentially the same thing, so you might eliminate those options that way. Think about the statement. Something is driving you around the bend. What is, from where, to where? Some stressor is driving you from sanity to madness. That makes it a little clearer madness is a location.
For 107, A and D are confrontational which is the antithesis of what they are asking, and C is missing the point entirely by getting stuck on the metaphor rather than using the metaphor. It's not seeing the forest for the trees.