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Unit 7 Progress Check: MCQ AP LANG UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
- The author most likely chose to introduce her argument by
way of a personal anecdote in order to
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: challenge her audience's
assumptions about Wyoming residents
- At the end of the second paragraph ("And yet . . . India"), the
author includes a series of clauses that serve to
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: qualify the argument that
Wyoming's political culture lacks diversity
- In the sixth sentence of the third paragraph ("She campaigned
. . . and to her"), the author uses the dash primarily to
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: stress a significant
connection
- In the context of the passage as a whole, the sixth paragraph
("Since that . . . 90 percent white") primarily serves to
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: reveal the author's concern
about how diversity is represented in Wyoming politics
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- In the sentence toward the middle of the final paragraph ("But
if Wyoming . . . choose to live here"), the author uses subordination to
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: highlight the difficulty of
attracting minorities to rural states
- In the closing lines of the passage ("I love the mountains . . .
the space"), the author affirms her sense of attachment to Wyoming by
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: offering a poetic description
of Wyoming's natural beauty
- In the first sentence, the way in which the author combines
clauses after the main verb "is" ("what makes an artist . . . a good work of art") indicates that he
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: attaches equal importance
to the topics he intends to address
- In the second paragraph, the two commas in the last sentence
serve which of the following purposes?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: They separate three related
objections to which the author imagines himself responding.
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- In the third paragraph, the last sentence ("There is no . . .
gold") does which of the following?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: It emphasizes a claim about
artistic eras that has previously been explained.
- At the beginning of the fourth paragraph ("WHAT . . .
people?"), the author uses all capitals primarily to
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: emphasize the disbelief
with which he expects the audience to react to his argument
- The author characterizes the Athenians as "the citizens of
one out of a thousand cities" (paragraph 5) in order to convey which of the following
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Even if the Athenians were
shown to be an artistic people, that designation should not be extended to all peoples of ancient Greece
- Which of the following describes the purpose of the last
sentence of the passage?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: It connects the author's
imagined scenario to his claim about the Athenians.
- Which of the following versions of the underlined portion of
sentence 1 most effectively accomplishes this goal?
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- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: "e-reader," to use instead of
print books in my college literature classes.
- The writer wants to combine sentences 3 and 4 (reproduced
below) in a way that expresses the unequal relationship between the ideas in these sentences. "I discovered that print is better suited to in-depth reading. E-readers have numerous advantages." In the context of the passage as a whole, which of the following choices best achieves this goal?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Even though e-readers have
numerous advantages, I discovered that print is better suited to in-depth reading.
- The writer wants to add an anecdote to the first paragraph
that orients the reader to the argument of the passage. Which of the following choices best accomplishes this goal?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: A story about reading an
English novel with an e-reader and then being unable to recall major elements of the plot
- The writer is considering adding the phrase "for reading that
requires intense concentration" to the end of sentence 8 (reproduced below). "Despite these advantages, I discovered that e-readers do not work well." Should the writer make this addition?