Sounds about right to me. If there are 4-5
tossups and bonuses in history per 20, seems that roughly
1, maybe 2, should be 20th century. Ditto
literature.
This is a bit skewed towards the 20th century, but
there is more information/better access to
information/better travel, so more has happened in the 20th century
than in any other century. Thus, it deserves a larger
slice of the distribution than other
eras.
However, much more than this and a packet becomes very
20th-century heavy. Add in science, social science, current
events, trash, and other topics that rely VERY heavily on
the 20th century, and the packet tends to miss out on
the broadness of human activity. This broadness (in
time, place, etc) is exactly what "history" and
"literature" categories, asking about actual and fictionalized
impresssions of those times and places, are supposed to
do.
>For what it's worth, my gut feeling is
that
>somewhere between 25% and 33% of
literature
>questions should cover 20th-century lit and from
>15%
to 23% should treat 20th-century history.
>I'm
not sure how close that is to your
typical
>NAQT (or ACF) packet.