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AP Language Multiple Choice Passages
Year Source Passage
1982 In the cycle of phenomena presented by the life…from The Struggle for Existence
19?? Acorn Book Studies serve for delight, for ornament…from "Of Studies"
19?? Acorn Book That it should be necessary, at this late stage…from In Defense of Women
19?? Acorn Book The written word is weak…from Three
19?? Acorn Book It was a hazy sunrise in August…from Tess of the D'Urbervilles
19?? Acorn Book These are the times that try men's souls- from Common Sense
1987 Acorn Book It is because criticism has so little kept…from The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
1987 Acorn Book Good and evil we know in the field of…from Areopagitica
1987 Released Exam Each of the following sentences is to be rephrased
1987 Released Exam Natural historians, those scientists most directly charged...
1987 Released Exam Whence can we take a better argument…"Meditation XI from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
1987 Released Exam The vacant ice looked tired…from "An Innocent at Rinkside" in Sports Illustrated January 24, 1955
1987 Released Exam To avoid, therefore, the evil…from "Reflections on the Revolution in France"
1989-95 Acorn Book As there are to be found in the service…from "The Rambler"
1989-95 Acorn Book The problem of doing justice to the implicit…
1989-95 Acorn Book Experience, already reduced to a group…in the Conclusion of The Renaissance: a Study
1989-95 Acorn Book Once a day a cheap, gaudy picket arrived…from Life on the Mississippi
1989-95 Acorn Book But to tell you my story--it is a simple one…from "Professions for Women," a paper read to the Women's Service League
1991 Released Exam Fetters and headsmen were the coarse…from Democracy in America
1991 Released Exam How easy it is to call rogue and villain…from Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire
1991 Released Exam I was glad when somebody told me…from Mules and Men, Introduction
1991 Released Exam It was not a union which seemed likely to prosper…from The Reason Why
1994-5, 2002-3 Student Guide One night a moth flew into the candle…from Holy the Firm
1994-5, 2002-3 Student Guide It is the fate of those who strive…from Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language
1996 Released Exam If survival is an art, then mangroves are…from "Sojourner" in Teaching a Stone to Talk
1996 Released Exam Genius or originality is, for the most part…from "On Genius and Common Sense" in Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
1996 Released Exam A dark mist lay over the Black hills…on Devil's Tower National Monument described in The Way to Rainy Mountain
1996 Released Exam To be a King, and wear a Crown…speech to her last Parliament excerpt
2000 Acorn Book Thus there are two books from whence…from Religion Medici
1998-2005 Acorn Book The town sits in a vale between two…from Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South
1998-2005 Acorn Book Up on the corner lived a drunk of legend…from essay in Shadow and Act, first published in High Fidelity
1998-2005 Acorn Book It is not easy to write a familiar style…from "On Familiar Style" in Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
1998-2005 Acorn Book Throughout her history China had believed… from Stilwell and the American Experience in China
2001 Released Exam I am a woman... excerpt from My Garden
2001 Released Exam But a far more important correction…from "Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power"
2001 Released Exam On Bird, Bird-watching, and Jazz
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AP Language Multiple Choice Passages
2001 Released Exam The Decline of Grammar
1998-2005 Acorn Book The Introspective Engineer excerpt from "A major attraction at the Paris Expo..."
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AP Language Multiple Choice Passages
Author Date Typed Prompt, Rubric, Rangefinders
APS Lesson
Huxley, Thomas 1888
Bacon, Sir Francis 1625
Mencken, HL 1922
Dillard, Annie 1990
Hardy, Thomas 1891
Paine, Thomas 1776
Arnold, Matthew 1865
Milton, John 1644
no author
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Donne, John 1623 typed
Faulkner, William 1955 typed
Burke, Edmund 1790
Johnson, Dr. Samuel 1751
Oppenheimer, Robert 1904-1967
Pater, Walter 1893
Twain, Mark 1883
Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941 lesson
deTocqueville, Alexis 1835
Dryden, John 1693
Hurston, Zora Neale 1935
Woodham-Smith, C. 1953
Dillard, Annie 1976
Johnson, Dr. Samuel 1755
Dillard, Annie 1982
Hazlitt, William 1822
Momaday, N. Scott 1969
Queen Elizabeth 1601
Browne, Sir Thomas 1605-1682
Abbott, Shirley 1945 born
Ellison, Ralph 1964 lesson
Hazlitt, William 1822
Tuchman, Barbara 1912-1989
Dodge, Abigail 1862
Dequincy, Thomas 1848
Ellison, Ralph 1953
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AP Language Multiple Choice Passages
Nunberg, Geoffrey 1983
Florman, Samuel 1996
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AP Language Free Response Essays
Year Prompt Author Date APS Lesson Typed Passage, Rubric, Ra
1984 Death of Benny Paret Mailer, Norman 1962 typed
1985 A Farewell to Arms Early Draft (compare) Hemingway, Ernest 1929
1985 A Farewell to Arms Later Draft (compare) Hemingway, Ernest 1929
1985 Space Launch- Passage 1 (compare) Arendt, Hannah typed
1985 Space Launch- Passage 2 (compare) Smithsonian typed
1985 The Wilson Quarterly excerpt persuasion 1983
1986 Closely related pairs of words exposition
1986 The Way to Rainy Mountain Landscape Passage 1 (compare) Momaday, Scott 1976
1986 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Passage 2 (compare) Brown, Dee 1970
1986 Patterns and standards- "It is human nature…" persuasion
1987 Dust Tracks on a Road excerpt Hurston, Zora 1942
1987 Group sociolect or language of its own persuasion
1987 Personal relationships quotation- I hate the idea of causes… Forster, E. M.
1988 Democracy in America excerpt De Tocqueville 1835
1988 Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass- passage on escaping slavery Douglass, Frederick 1845
1988 Write a magazine article about a specific place description
1989 Announcement in a church bulletin: "Flash…" persuasion typed
1989 Describe a way one person can be seen two ways description
1989 Why We Can't Wait excerpt King, Dr. Martin Luther 1963
1990 Autobiographical excerpt- "From the time I…" West with the Night, 194Beryl Markham
Markham, Beryl 1902-1986
1990 First Amendment Supreme Court decision Hazelwood, NJ Supreme Court 1988
1990 Galapagos Islands- Essay 1 (compare) from Voyage of the Beagle Darwin, Charles 1847
1990 Galapagos Islands- Essay 2 (compare) 19th century writer 1900s
1991 Ecclesiastes quotation- "For in much wisdom is much sorrow." Solomon lesson
10th century BC
1991 Family essay- "My mother is not…" from "Mr. Secrets" in Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
Rodriguez, Richard 1981
1991 Orchestra conductors Stravinsky, Igor 1882-1971 lesson
1992 On Being a Cripple- "I am a cripple…" from Plaintext: Essays. Tucson Arizona. Univ. of Arizona Press, pp. 9-21
Mairs, Nancy 1986
1992 Speech to her troops at Tilbury Queen Elizabeth 1588 lesson
1992 The Spectator excerpt- If the talent of ridicule…" Addison, Joseph 1711
1993 My Wood- excerpt Forster, E.M. 1936
1993 Artists- "It is almost as safe to assume that an.." Mencken, H. L. 1924
1993 Pride and Prejudice marriage proposal -Passage 1 (compare) Austen, Jane 1813
1993 Marriage proposals- Passage 2 (compare) Dickens, Charles 1865
1994 Los Angeles Notebook- excerpt Didion, Joan 20th century
1994 King Charles II essay Saville, Sir George 17th century lesson
1994 March of Folly - Wooden-headedness quotation Tuchman, Barbara 20th century
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1995 The Company Man- newspaper article - "He worked himself to death…" Goodman, Ellen 1979
1995 Language as the key to identity quotation Baldwin, James 1979
1995 Precedence to a soldier rather than to a merchant Ruskin, John 1860
1996 Letter to her granddaughter Montagu, Lady Mary 1689-1762
1996 Money and Class in America quotation Lapham, Lewis 1987
1996 Summer Life essay - "I knew enough about hell to…" Soto, Gary 1990
1997 Essay contrasting Orwell and Huxley's visions Postman, Neil 1985
1997 Fault Lines excerpt- "The plate glass window…" Alexander, Meena 1993
1997 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass excerpt Douglass, Fredrick 1845
1998 Letter to Herbert from Grove Press (compare) Seaver, Richard 1970 lesson
1998 Letter to Seaver from Coca Cola (compare) Herbert, Ira C. 1970 lesson
1998 Letter to William Wordsworth Lamb, Charles 1801
1998 Portrait of a Lady excerpt James, Henry 1881 lesson
1999 On Seeing England for the First Time- excerpt Kincaid, Jamaica 1992 lesson
1999 Antigone quotation Sophocles 496-46 BC lesson
1999 Okefenokee Swamp Passage 1 (compare) encyclopedia entry 1988 lesson typed
1999 Okefenokee Swamp Passage 2 (compare) compare/contrast 1990 lesson typed
2000 Gandhi essay Orwell, George 1949 lesson
2000 King Lear quotation Shakespeare, William 1605-06 lesson
2000 One Writer's Beginning- excerpt Welty, Eudora 1983 lesson typed
2001 Owls- excerpt Oliver, Mary 1991 lesson
2001 Letter to Melusiana Fay Pierce Lewes, M. E. (George Eliot) 1866
2001 On Photography quotation Sontag, Susan 1977 lesson
2002 Moments of Being-excerpt "Better than these walks…" Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941 lesson
2002 Second Inaugural Address- speech Lincoln, Abraham 1965 lesson
2002 Testaments Betrayed qoutation- Private/public life Kundera, Milan 1995 lesson
2002 Form B Araviapa Canyon essay Down the River, Abbey, Edward 1982 lesson
2002 Form B Julius Caesar scene- Calpurnia persuasion Shakespeare, William 1599 lesson
2002 Form B What are People For? Excerpt Berry, Wendell 1990
2003 Flock of birds Passage 2 (compare) Dillard, Annie 1974 lesson
2003 Flock of birds Passage I (compare) Audubon, John James 1831-1839 lesson
2003 How Entertainment Conquered Reality, Life: The Movie excerpt Gabler, Neal 1998 lesson
2003 Speech in Philadelphia on joining the Union Army Green, Alfred M. 1861 lesson
2003 Form B A woman who recently moved from Los Angeles from "The Common Life"Russell, Scott 1994
2003 Form B Downe, John 1830
Letter to his wife published in Letters of a Nation ed. Andrew Carroll, Kodansha America, Inc, 114 Fifth Ave. NY 10011, 1997 lesson
2003 Form B High school teacher Christine Pelton discovers plagiarism news article Associated Press
2004 Controversy and compromise- choose issue and defend both sides argumentation
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AP Language Free Response Essays
2004 Days of Obligation excerpt on Mexico and California Rodriguez, Richard 1992 lesson typed
2004 Letter to his son Chesterfield, Lord 1746 lesson typed
2004 Form B Silent Spring excerpt Rachel Carson 1962
2004 Form B From time to time the question arises…The Nude in Museums from Atlantic Monthly 1901
2004 Form B Michael Ignatieff
Blood and Belonging: Journeys into New Nationalism- quote about rules of group identity- ADQ 1994
2005 Training for Statesmanship article excerpt on foreign policy Kennan, George 1953
2005 Singer, Peter
Singer Solution to World Poverty quotation - complete article has illustrations 1999, Sept. 5
2005 The Onion mock press release on MagnaSoles- humor and satire analysis 1999
2005 Form B Maria W. Hall, Boston
Few white persons of either sex, who are calculated... excerpt from lecture at FranklinStewart 1832
2005 Form B John NY Simon
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America M. Barry and Schuster p. 524 1997
2005 Form B Medusa and the Snail passage- defend, challenge, qualify Lewis Thomas 1979
2006 Price, Scholar
The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History -excerpt from essay, The American Jennifer 1999, Spring
2006 On the Want of Money- excerpt from essay Hazlitt, William 1827, January
2006 Take a position on the value of public statements of opinion and support argumentation
2006 Form B Schopenhauer, From
Thinking for Oneself- excerpt from The Art of Literature" A Series of Essays1890 - trans. ArthurGerman 1788-1860
2006 Form B Saint Joan- excerpt from play Shaw, George Bernard 1920-23
2006 Form B Take a position on the issue of compulsory voting- defend argumentation
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AP Language Free Response Essays
Date Completed by Teacher
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AP Literature Multiple Choice Passages
Year Passage Author
1966 Acorn Book Sonnet 60 Like as the Waves- poem Shakespeare, William
1978 Acorn Book Church Monuments- poem from The Temple Herbert, George
1978 Acorn Book Elegiac Stanzas - poem Wordsworth, William
1978 Acorn Book Hard Times excerpt on Coketown- prose Dickens, Charles
1978 Acorn Book Some Thoughts on the Common Toad - prose Orwell, George
1980 Acorn Book And those also who talk with them….prose ???
1982 Released Exam A Dialogue Between Body and Soul- poem Marvell, Andrew
1982 Released Exam Advice to a Prophet- poem Wilbur, Richard
1982 Released Exam Tradition and the Individual Talent- prose Eliot, T. S.
1982 Released Exam Walden excerpt- I sometimes dream of a larger house….prose Thoreau, Henry David
1987 Released Exam Imitations of Horace - Time was, a sober Englishman…prose Pope, Alexander
1987 Released Exam Meditation VI from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions on the Physician- prose Donne, John
1987 Released Exam The Eolian Harp- poem Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
1987 Released Exam Their Eyes Were Watching Eyes- prose excerpt Hurston, Zora Neale
1991 Released Exam Lady with a Falcon- poem from Selected Poems of May Sarton Sarton, May
1991 Released Exam Richard II soliloquy from the play- I have been studying how…. Shakespeare, William
1991 Released Exam The Mountain Gloom from In Memoriam- The mountain paths stoop to these glens… Ruskin, John
1991 Released Exam White Noise excerpt- The station wagons arrived at noon…prose Delillo, Don
1994 Released Exam A Whippoorwill in the Woods- poem from The Best American poem of 1991 Clampitt, Amy
1994 Released Exam Go Tell it on the Mountain- prose excerpt Baldwin, James
1994 Released Exam My Picture- poem Cowley, Abraham
1994 Released Exam Vanity Fair- prose excerpt Thackeray, William
1999 Released Exam A New England Nun and Other Stories- prose excerpt Freeman, Mary W.
1999 Released Exam Facing It from Dien Cai Dau- poem Komunyakaa, Yusef
1999 Released Exam I Dreaded that First Robin So- poem Dickinson, Emily
1999 Released Exam The Decay of Lying: An Observation published in Intentions- prose Wilde, Oscar
1999 Released Exam Volpone scene from the play Jonson, Ben
2004 Released Exam Einstein's Dreams excerpt- prose Lightman, Alan
2004 Released Exam Sonnet 90- poem Shakespeare, William
2004 Released Exam The Albuquerque Graveyard - prose Wright, Jay
2004 Released Exam The Idler essay excerpt Johnson, Samuel
2004 Released Exam The Mill on the Floss prose excerpt Eliot, George
2000-05 Acorn Book Shirley, A Tale- Of late years an abundant shower…prose excerpt Bronte, Charlotte
2000-05 Acorn Book The Habit of Perfection- poem Hopkins, Gerard Manley
19?? CB Booklet- explanations Autobiography- prose excerpt Mill, John Stuart
19?? CB Booklet- explanations They Flee from Me- poem Wyatt, Sir Thomas
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AP Literature Multiple Choice Passages
1983-2003 Student Guide Mrs. Dalloway- prose excerpt Woolf, Virginia
1983-2003 Student Guide Richard III, Act I, sc. 1 soliloquy- Now is the winter of our discontent…play Shakespeare, William
1983-87 Acorn Book Beasts published in Things of This World - poem Wilbur, Richard
1983-87 Acorn Book Remembrance of Things Past - When we were all still alive…prose excerpt Updike, John
1983-87 Acorn Book Secret Agent - prose excerpt on Mr. Verloc Conrad, Joseph
1983-87 Acorn Book The Collar- poem from The Temple Herbert, George
1988-92 Acorn Book Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire excerpt- How shall we excuse the supine…prose excerpt
Gibbon, Edward
1988-92 Acorn Book Hymn to Adversity- poem Gray, Thomas
1988-92 Acorn Book excerpt
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood excerpt- Yet even if we had been convinced …proseMcCarthy, Mary
1988-92 Acorn Book The Most of It (also compare with There was a Boy on poetry essay prompt) Frost, Robert
1988-92 Acorn Book Wordsworth, William
There was a Boy from Prelude (also compare with The Most of it on poetry essay prompt)
2000-05 Acorn Book Sestina- poem Bishop, Elizabeth
2000-05 Acorn Book Tom Jones: A Foundling- prose excerpt on Mr. Jones Fielding, Henry
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AP Literature Multiple Choice Passages
Date
1609
1633
1807
1854
1946
1681
1961
1920
1854
1730s
1623
1796
1937
1978
1595
1819-1900
1985
1990
1953
1656
1847-1848
2000
1988
1862
1889
1606
1993
1609
1987
1759
1860
1849
1917
1873
1557
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AP Literature Multiple Choice Passages
1925
1592
1956
1994
1906
1633
1776
1716-1771
1946
1942
1805
1979
1749
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AP Literature Free Response Essays
Year Prompt Author Date T
APS Lesson typed Passage, Rubric, Rangefi
1981 Death of his mother- prose excerpt Shaw, George Bernard 1913 typed
1984 Death of Benny Paret- prose excerpt Mailer, Norman 1962 typed
1985 There was a Boy (compare) and on multiple choice exam Wordsworth, William 1805 typed
1985 Frost, Robert
The Most of It (compare) from A Witness Tree and on multiple choice exam 1942 typed
1985 A Farewell to Arms - Early Draft compared with Later Draft Hemingway, Ernest 1929
1985 Pleasure and disquietitude Open-Ended
1986 Domby and Son- prose excerpt Dickens, Charles 1846
1986 Ogun from the trilogy The Arrivants Brainthwaithe, Edward Kamau 1981
1986 Distortion of time Open-Ended
1987 Adam Bede prose excerpt on old leisure Eliot, George 1859
1987 Advocates change in social attitudes Open-Ended
1987 Sow- poetry Plath, Sylvia 1957 typed
1988 Bright Star (compare)- poetry Keats, John 1819 typed
1988 Choose Something Like a Star (compare)- poetry Frost, Robert 1947
1988 Reunion from The New Yorker- prose excerpt Cheever, John 1978
1989 Conrad,
Typhoon- prose excerpt on Captain MacWhirr from Typhoon and Other Stories Joseph 1903
1989 The Great Scarf of Birds- poetry Updike, John 1962 typed
1989 Make a good case for distortion quotation O'Connor, Flannery Open-ended typed
1990 Henry IV, Part II- sololiquy from the play Shakespeare, William 1598 lesson typed
1990 Once, in a dry season... Prose excerpt Didion, Joan 20th c.
1990 Conflict between parent and child Open-Ended
1991 The Last Night that She Lived- poetry Dickinson, Emily 1866 typed
1991 The Life of Samuel Johnson- prose excerpt Boswell, James 1791
1991 Two contrasting Places Open-Ended
1992 Prelude - poerty excerpt from autobiographical poem Wordsworth, William 1805 lesson
1992 I Stand Here Ironing- prose excerpt from Tell me a Riddle Olsen, Tilly 1961
1992 Confidant Open-Ended
1993 The Centaur from A Cage of Spines- poetry Swenson, May 1958
1993 Florence Nightengale from Eminent Victorians- prose excerpt Strachey, Lynton 1918
1993 Thoughtful laughter Open-Ended
1994 A White Heron - prose passage from A White Heron and Other Stories Jewett, Sarah Orne 1886
1994 To Helen (compare) - poetry Poe, Edgar Allan 1831
1994 Helen (compare)- poetry Doolittle, Hilda 1912-1944
1994 Character who appears briefly Open-Ended
1995 The Broken Heart - poetry Donne, John 1633 lesson typed
1995 Eleven - poetry Cisneros, Sandra 1991 typed
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1995 Alienated character Open-Ended
1996 The House of the Seven Gables - prose passage on Judge Pyncheon Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1851 lesson typed
1996 Author to Her Book - poetry Bradstreet, Anne 1678
1996 Happy endings Open-Ended
1997 The Death of a Toad - poetry Wilbur, Richard 1950
1997 Obasan- prose excerpt Kogawa, Joy 1981
1997 Scenes of weddings, funerals, parties Open-Ended
1998 It's a Woman's World - poetry Bolan, Evan 1982
1998 Middlemarch - prose passage about Dorothea Eliot, George 1871 lesson
1998 Uncivilized free and wild thinking quotation Thoreau, Henry David Open-ended
1999 Blackberry-Picking - poetry Heaney, Seamus 1990 lesson typed
1999 The Crossing - prose excerpt on the boy and wolf McCarthy, Cormac 1994
1999 Mind torn asunder quotation Open-Ended
2000 Odyssey- poetry excerpt on the sirens (compare) Homer 850 BC
2000 Siren Song in Selected Poems 1965-1975 Atwood, Margaret 1976 typed
2000 The Spectator - fictional diary of a gentleman Addison, Joseph 1712 typed
2000 Investigation of a mystery Open-Ended typed
2001 London, 1802 (compare) - poetry Wordsworth, William 1802
2001 Douglass (compare) - poetry Dunbar, Paul Laurence 1872-1906
2001 Tom Jones - prose excerpt on Allworthy and Wilkins Fielding, Henry 1749
2001 Divine madness quotation Dickinson, Emily Open-Ended 1862
2002 Kiss and Tell- prose passage from novel de Bottom, Alain 1995 typed
2002 The Convergence of the Twain- Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy Hardy, Thomas 1912 typed
2002 Morally ambiguous characters Open-Ended typed
2002 Form B Shipping News - prose excerpt from novel on Quoyle Proulx, Annie 1994 lesson typed
2002 Form B If I Could Tell You in Collected Poems by W. H. Auden Auden, W. H. 1945
2002 Form B Keeping a secret Open-Ended
2003 Eros- title in Greek (compare) - poetry Bridges, Robert 1899 lesson
2003 Eros in Collected Poems 1955-1995 Stevenson, Anne 1990 lesson
2003 The Other Paris- short story excerpt Gallant, Mavis 1953
2003 Frye, Northrop Open-Ended 1957 lesson
Tragic heroes as instruments of suffering probably from Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays, "The Mythos of Autumn" Princeton University Press 1957
2003 Form B Modern Love- poem from this book of poetry Meredith, George 1962 lesson
2003 Form B We Were the Mulvaneys- excerpt from the novel Oates, Joyce Carol 1996
2003 Form B Colliding cultures Open-Ended
2004 We Grow Accustomed to the Dark (compare) - poetry Dickinson, Emily 1862 lesson typed
2004 Acquainted with the Night (compare) - poetry Frost, Robert 1956 lesson
2004 The Pupil - prose excerpt James, Henry 1891 typed
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AP Literature Free Response Essays
2004 Question minus the answer quote Barthes, Roland typed
2004 Form B Mary Barton- novel excerpt Gaskell, Elizabeth 1848
2004 Form B prose excerpt
Crossing the Swamp from American Primitive, first in Atlantic Monthly - Oliver, Mary 1980
2004 Form B Death scene Open-Ended
2005 The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Innocence - poetry Blake, William 1789
2005 The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Experience - poetry Blake, William 1794
2005 The Birthday Party - prose excerpt Brush, Katharine 1946
2005 Outward existence conforms, inward questions quotation Chopin, Kate Open-ended typed
2005 Form B Five A. M. (compare) in The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems Stafford, William 1991
2005 Form B Five Flights Up (compare) in The Complete Poems 127-1979 Bishop, Elizabeth 1927-1979
2005 Form B McTeague - novel excerpt published as part of trilogy on San Francisco Norris, Frank 1914
2005 Form B Desire for power Open-Ended
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AP Literature Free Response Essays
Date Completed by Teacher
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1975-2005 AP Literature 3rd Question Open-Ended Prompt
Suggestions
Author's Last Name First Name Suggested Titles- Invisible Man has been used most Lists --- No lists in 1957, 1969, 1973,1974, 1998. Questions 1, 3 Authors Only
often, Wuthering Heights 2nd, Heart of Darkness 3rd. both are open-ended in 1977. in 1975, 1977
#1, 1993
Faulkner William Absalom, Absalom 1976, 2000, 2007 1977 #1
Eliot George (Evans) Adam Bede 2006
Twain Mark Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (The) 1980, 1982, 1985, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996,1999, 2005, 2005 1975, 1993
B, 2006, 2006 B
Virgil Aeneid (The) 2006 B
Wharton Edith Age of Innocence (The) 1997, 2002, 2003 B, 2005
Pielmeier John Agnes of God 2000
Atwood Margaret Alias Grace 2000, 2004
Miller Arthur All My Sons 1985, 1990
Warren Robert Penn All the King's Men 2000, 2002, 2004, 2004 B, 2007
McCarthy Cormac All the Pretty Horses 1996, 2006, 2006 B
Bulosan Carlos America is in the Heart 1995
James Henry American (The) 2005, 2007
Dreiser Theodore American Tragedy (An) 1982, 1995, 2003
Tolstoy Leo Anna Karenina 1980, 1991, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004 B, 2006
Sophocles Antigone 1979, 1980, 1990, 1994, 1999, 2003, 2005 B 1977 #1
Shakespeare William Antony and Cleopatra 1980, 1991 1993
Richler Mordecai Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (The) 1994 1993
Mailer Norman Armies of the Night 1976
Faulkner William As I Lay Dying 1978, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2001, 2004 B, 2006, 2006 B 1993
Shakespeare William As You Like It 1992, 2005, 2006 1975
McEwan Ian Atonement 2007
Johnson James Weldon Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man (The) 2002, 2005
Chopin Kate Awakening (The) 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004 B, 2007
Faulkner William Bear (The) 1994, 2006
Morrison Toni Beloved 1990, 1999, 2002 B, 2003, 2005 B, 2007
Naipaul V. S. Bend in the River (A) 2003 B
Melville Herman Benito Cereno 1989
Melville Herman Billy Budd 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1999, 2002, 2004 B, 2005
Pinter Harold Birthday Party (The) 1989, 1997 1977 #1
Wright Richard Black Boy 2006
Dickens Charles Bleak House 1994, 2000, 2004 B
Anaya Rudolfo Bless Me, Ultima 1996, 1997, 2004 B, 2005, 2006
Atwood Margaret Blind Assassin (The)
Morrison Toni Bluest Eye (The) 1995
Smith Jeff Bone 2003 B
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1975-2005 AP Literature 3rd Question Open-Ended Prompt
Suggestions
Tan Amy Bonesetter's Daughter (The) 2006, 2007
Huxley Aldous Brave New World 1989, 2005 1993
Greene Graham Brighton Rock 1979
Dostoevsky Fyodor Brothers Karamazov (The) 1990
Shaw George Bernard Candida 1980 1975, 1993
Voltaire Candide 1986, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2004, 2006 B 1993
Chaucer Geoffrey Canterbury Tales (The) 2006 B
Pinter Harold Caretaker (The) 1985
Williams Tennessee Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 2000, 2002 B
Heller Joseph Catch-22 1982, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1994, 2001, 2003 B, 2004 B, 2005 1975
Salinger J. D. Catcher in the Rye (The) 2001
Atwood Margaret Cat's Eye 1994
Updike John Centaur (The) 1981
Silko Leslie Ceremony 1994,1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003 B, 2005 B, 2006, 2007
Checkhov Anton Cherry Orchard (The) 1977 #3, 2006, 2007
Thoreau Henry David Civil Disobedience 1976
Frazier Charles Cold Mountain 2006 B
Walker Alice Color Purple (The) 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2005
Ondaatje Michael Coming Through Slaughter 2001
Dostoevsky Fyodor Crime and Punishment 1976, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1988, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2002
B, 2003, 2004, 2004 B, 2005 B
Paine (or W. Churchill's) Thomas Crisis (The) 1976
Miller Arthur Crucible (The) 1983, 1987, 2004 B, 2005
Paton Alan Cry, the Beloved Country 1985, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2007
James Henry Daisy Miller 1997, 2003 B 1975
Friel Brian Dancing at Lughnasa 2001
Dickens Charles David Copperfield 1978, 1983, 2006 1993
Joyce James Dead (The) 1997
Miller Arthur Death of a Salesman 1986,1988, 1994, 2002 B, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007
Tolstoy Leo Death of Ivan Ilyich (The) 1986
Welty Eudora Delta Wedding 1997
O'Neill Eugene Desire Under the Elms 1981
Tyler Anne Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 1997
Alighieri Dante Divine Comedy (The) 2006 B
Laurence Margaret Diviners (The) 1995
Marlowe Christopher Doctor Faustus 1979, 1986, 1999, 2004 1975
Arnot Harriet Dollmaker (The) 1991
Ibsen Henrik Doll's House (A) and A Doll House 1983, 1987, 1988, 1995, 2002 B, 2005, 2007 1975, 1977 #1
de Cervantes Miguel Don Quixote 1992, 2001, 2004, 2006 1977 #1
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1975-2005 AP Literature 3rd Question Open-Ended Prompt
Suggestions
Garcia Christina Dreaming in Cuban 2003 B
Jones LeRoi Dutchman 2003 B, 2006 B
Steinbeck John East of Eden 2006
Austen Jane Emma 1996 1975
Ibsen Henrik Enemy of the People (An) 1976, 1980, 1987, 1999, 2001, 2007
Shaffer Peter Equus 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001
Wharton Edith Ethan Frome 1980, 1985, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007
Aeschylus Eumenides (The) 1996
Camus Albert Fall (The) 1981
Hemingway Ernest Farewell to Arms (A) 1991, 1999, 2004 B
Strindberg August Father- play? (The) 2001
Turgenev Ivan Fathers and Sons 1990
Von Goethe Johann Wolfgang Faust 2002, 2003
Hamilton Federalist (The) 1976
Wilson August Fences 2002, 2003, 2005 B
Davies Robertson Fifth Business 2000, 2007
Mistry Rohinton Fine Balance (A) 2003 B
Malamud Bernard Fixer (The) 2007
Hemingway Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls 2003, 2006
Shelley Mary Frankenstein 1989, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007
Gaines Ernest Gathering of Old Men (A) 2000
Lee Chang-rae Gesture Life (A) 2004, 2005
Ibsen Henrik Ghosts 2000, 2002 B, 2004, 2004 B
Williams Tennessee Glass Menagerie (The) 1990, 1997, 1999, 2002
Baldwin James Go Tell it on the Mountain 1988, 1990, 2005 1977 #1
O'Brien Tim Going After Cacciato 2006 B
Ford Ford Maddox Good Soldier (The) 2000
Steinbeck John Grapes of Wrath (The) 1981, 1985, 1987, 1995, 2003 B, 2006
Dickens Charles Great Expectations 1979, 1980, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2000, 2002
B, 2003 B, 2004, 2005 B, 2007
Fitzgerald F. Scott Great Gatsby (The) 1982, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2000, 2000, 2002 B, 2004,
2004 B, 2005 B, 2007
Swift Jonathan Gulliver's Travels 1987, 1989, 2001, 2004, 2006 B 1993
O'Neill Eugene Hairy Ape (The) 1989
Shakespeare William Hamlet 1988, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006
Atwood Margaret Handmaid's Tale (The) 1992, 2003 B 1993
Dickens Charles Hard Times 1987, 1990
Conrad Joseph Heart of Darkness 1976, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2002 B, 2003 B,
2004, 2004 B, 2006 B, 2007
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Suggestions
Ibsen Henrik Hedda Gabler 1979, 1992, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005 B
Shakespeare William Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 1980, 1990
Shakespeare William Henry V 2002
Pinter Harold Homecoming (The) 1978, 1990
Momaday Scott House Made of Dawn 1995, 2006
Wharton Edith House of Mirth (The) 2004 B, 2007
Hawthorne Nathaniel House of the Seven Gables (The) 1989
Homer Iliad (The) 1980
Wilde Oscar Importance of Being Ernest (The) 2002 B, 2006 B 1993
O'Brien Tim In the Lake of the Woods 2000
Alvarez Julia In the Time of Butterflies 2005 B
Ellison Ralph Invisible Man 1976, 1977 #3, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1975
1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2003 B, 2004, 2005
MacLeish Archibald J. B. 1981, 1994
Bronte Charlotte Jane Eyre 1978, 1979, 1980, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000,
2002 B, 2005 B, 2007,
Mukherjee Bharati Jasmine 1999
Wilson August Joe Turner's Come and Gone 2000, 2004
Fielding Henry Joseph Andrews 1991 1975, 1993
Tan Amy Joy Luck Club (The) 1997, 2003 B
Hardy Thomas Jude, the Obscure 1976, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1991, 1995, 2004 B
Shakespeare William Julius Caesar 1982, 1997 2005 B,
Sinclair Upton Jungle (The) 1987
Shakespeare William King Lear 1977 #3, 1978,1982, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2004,
2004 B, 2005, 2006
Hosseini Khaled Kite Runner (The) 2007
Gaines Ernest Lesson Before Dying (A) 1999
de Crevecoeur J. Hector Letters from an American Farmer 1976
Faulkner William Light in August 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1995, 1999, 2002 B, 2003, 2006 B
Hellman Lillian Little Foxes (The) 1985, 1990
O'Neill Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night 1990, 2003, 2007
Conrad Joseph Lord Jim 1977 #3, 1978, 1982, 1986, 2000, 2003, 2007
Golding William Lord of the Flies 1985, 1992
Erdrich Louise Love Medicine 1995
Eliot T. S. Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (The) 1985, 1990, 2001, 2004, 2006 1977 #1, 1993
Waugh Evelyn Loved One (The) 1989 1993
Aristophanes Lysistrata 1987 1993
Hwang David Henry M. Butterfly 1995
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Suggestions
Shakespeare William Macbeth 1983, 1999, 2002 B, 2003, 2005 B, 2006
Flaubert Gustave Madame Bovary 1980, 1985, 2004 B, 2005, 2006
Lewis Sinclair Main Street 1987
Shaw George Bernard Major Barbara 1979, 1996, 2004
Shaw George Bernard Man and Superman 1981
Austen Jane Mansfield Park 1991, 2003 B, 2006
Fugard Athol Master Harold…and the boys 2003 B
Hardy Thomas Mayor of Casterbridge (The) 1994, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2002 B,
Euripides Medea 1982, 1992, 1995, 2001, 2003
McCullers Carson Member of the Wedding (The) 1997
Shakespeare William Merchant of Venice (The) 1985, 1991, 1995, 2002, 2003 B
Kafka Franz Metamorphosis (The) 1978, 1989, 2001, 2004, 2007 1993
Johnson Charles Middle Passage 2006 B
Eliot George Middlemarch 1995, 2004, 2005, 2007
Shakespeare William Midsummer Night's Dream (A) 1991, 2006
Eliot George Mill on the Floss (The) 1990, 1992, 2004 B
Moliere Jean-Baptiste Misanthrope (The) 1992
West Nathaniel Miss Lonelyhearts 1989
Melville Herman Moby-Dick 1976, 1977 #3, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1989, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2003,
2004, 2004 B, 2005 B, 2006 B, 2007
Defoe Daniel Moll Flanders 1976, 1977 #3, 1986, 1987, 1995
Cao Lan Monkey Bridge 2000, 2003 B
Rushdie Salman Moor's Last Sigh (The) 2007
David Hare R Mother Courage 1985, 2006 B
Brecht Berthold Mother Courage and Her Children 1855, 1987,
Woolf Virginia Mrs. Dalloway 1994, 1997, 2004 B, 2005, 2007 1977
Shaw George Bernard Mrs. Warren's Profession 1987, 1990, 1995, 2002
Shakespeare William Much Ado About Nothing 1997
Eliot T. S. Murder in the Cathedral 1976, 1980, 1985, 1995
Cather Willa My Antonia 2003 B
Browning Robert My Last Duchess 1985
Potok Chaim My Name is Asher Lev 2003 B
Wright Richard Native Son 1979, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1995, 2001, 2004 B 1975
Lee Chang-rae Native Speaker 1999, 2003 B, 2005 B, 2007
Orwell George Nineteen Eighty-Four 1987, 1994, 2005, 2006, 2007 1977 #1
Sartre Jean-Paul No Exit 1986
Okada John No-No Boy 1995
Dostoevsky Fyodor Notes from the Underground 1989
Cather Willa O Pioneers! 2006
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Suggestions
Kogawa Joy Obasan 1994, 1995, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2006 B, 2007
Homer Odyssey (The) 1986, 2006 B
Sophocles Oedipus Rex 1977 #3, 1985, 1988, 2000, 2003, 2004
Steinbeck John Of Mice and Men 2001 1975
Denisovich Aleksandr One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 2005
Kesey Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 2001 1975
Garcia-Marquez Gabriel One Hundred Years of Solitude 1989, 2004 B
Lawrence D. H. Optimist's Daughter (The) 1994
Aeschylus Oresteia (The) 1990
Woolf Virginia Orlando 2004
Shakespeare William Othello 1979, 1985, 1988, 1992, 1995, 2003 B, 2004 B
Dickens Charles Our Mutual Friend 1990
Wilder Thornton Our Town 1986, 1997
Dinesen Isak Out of Africa 2006
Nabokov Vladimir Pale Fire 2001
Richardson Samuel Pamela 1986
Milton John Paradise Lost 1985, 1986, 1991, 1998, 2003
Forster E. M. Passage to India (A) 1978, 1977 #3,1988, 1991, 1992, 2007 1975
Ibsen Henrik Peer Gynt 2006 B
de Balzac Honoree Pere Goriot 2002
Austen Jane Persuasion 1990, 2005, 2007 1993
Racine Phedre 1992, 2003
Wilson August Piano Lesson (The) 1996, 1999, 2002 B, 2007
Wilde Oscar Picture of Dorian Gray (The) 2002, 2005, 2007 B
Camus Albert Plague (The) 2002
Syne J. M. Playboy of the Western World (The) 2002 B
Nabokov Vladimir Pnin 1997 1975, 1993
? Poccho 2002
James Henry Portrait of a Lady (The) 1996, 1988, 1992, 2003 B, 2005 1993
Joyce James Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (A) 1976, 1977 #3 1980, 1981, 1986, 1988, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2005, 1977 #1
2005 B, 2007
Greene Graham Power and the Glory (The) 1995
Marshall Paul Praisesong for the Widow 1996
Austen Jane Pride and Prejudice 1983, 1988, 1997, 1992, 2001, 2006
Spark Muriel Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (The) 1990
Shaw George Bernard Pygmalion 1992, 2003 B, 2005 B
Doctorow E. L. Ragtime 2003, 2007
Hansberry Loraine Raisin in the Sun (A) 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1999
Pope Alexander Rape of the Lock (The) 1981 1993
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Suggestions
Melville Herman Redburn 1987
Ishiguro Kazuo Remains of the Day (The) 2000, 2003 B
Shakespeare William Richard III 1979
Shakespeare William Romeo and Juliet 1990, 1992, 1997, 2002 B
Woolf Virginia Room of One's Own (A) 1976
Forster E. M. Room With a View (A) 2003 B
Stoppard Tom Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1981,1994, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006 B 1993
Shaw George Bernard Saint Joan 1995
Hawthorne Nathaniel Scarlet Letter (The) 1977 #3, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1999, 2002, 2002 B, 2004, 2004 B, 1977 #1
2005, 2005 B, 2006
Wideman John Edgar Sent for You Yesterday 2003
Knowles John Separate Peace (A) 1982, 2007
Proulx Anne Shipping News (The) 1997
Eliot George Silas Marner 2002
Dreiser Theodore Sister Carrie 1987, 2002, 2004
Vonnegut Kurt Slaughterhouse Five 1991, 2004 B
Guterson David Snow Falling on Cedars 2000
Morrison Toni Song of Solomon 1981, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2002 B, 2004 B, 2005 B, 2006 B
Lawrence D. H. Sons and Lovers 1977 #3, 1990
Faulkner William Sound and the Fury (The) 1986, 1997, 2001, 2004
Laurence Margaret Stone Angel (The) 1996, 2004 B
Camus Albert Stranger (The) 1979, 1982, 1986, 2004 B
Williams Tennessee Streetcar Named Desire (A) 1991, 1992, 2001, 2007 1975, 1977 #1
Morrison Toni Sula 1992, 1997, 2002, 2004
Hemingway Ernest Sun Also Rises (The) 1985, 1991, 1995, 2004, 2005
Atwood Margaret Surfacing 2005
Dickens Charles Tale of Two Cities (A) 1982, 1991, 2004 B 1975, 1977 #1,
1993
Moliere Jean-Baptiste Tartuffe 1987 1993
Shakespeare William Tempest (The) 1978, 1996, 2003 B, 2005 B, 2007
Hardy Thomas Tess of the D'Urbervilles 1982, 1991, 2003, 2006, 2007
Hurston Zora Their Eyes Were Watching God 1988, 1996, 1990, 1991, 2004, 2004 B, 2005, 2005 B, 2006, 2007 1993
Achebe Chinua Things Fall Apart 1991, 1997, 2003, 2003 B, 2006
O'Brien Tim Things They Carried (The) 2004, 2006
Smiley Jane Thousand Acres (A) 2006
Woolf Virginia To the Lighthouse 1977 #3, 1986, 1988
Fielding Henry Tom Jones 1990, 2000, 2006
Endrich Louise Tracks 2005 B
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1975-2005 AP Literature 3rd Question Open-Ended Prompt
Suggestions
Kafka Franz Trial (The) 1989, 2000
Glaspell Susan Trifles 2000
Sterne Laurence Tristan Shandy 1986
James Henry Turn of the Screw (The) 1992, 1994, 2000, 2002, 2004
Shakespeare William Twelfth Night 1985, 1994, 1996
Jen Gish Typical American 2002, 2003 B, 2005, 2005 B
Stowe Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin 1987
Goldsmith Oliver Vicar of Wakefield (The) 2006
Conrad Joseph Victory 1983
Jonson Ben Volpone 1983 1975, 1993
Beckett Samuel Waiting for Godot 1977 #3, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1994, 2001 1975, 1993
Trollope Anthony Warden (The) 1996
James Henry Washington Square 1990
Eliot T. S. Wasteland (The) 1981
Hellman Lillian Watch on the Rhine 1987
MacLennan Hugh Watch That Ends the Night (The) 1992
Trollope Anthony Way We Live Now (The) 2006
Albee Edward Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1988, 1994, 2000, 2004, 2007
Rhys Jean Wide Sargasso Sea 1989, 1992, 2005 B
Ibsen Henrik Wild Duck (The) 1978
Welch James Winter in the Blood 1995
Shakespeare William Winter's Tale (The) 1986, 1989
O'Connor Flannery Wise Blood 1982, 1989, 1995
Kingston Maxine Hong Woman Warrior 1991
Bronte Emily Wuthering Heights 1977 #3, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1975
1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2006, 2007
Albee Edward Zoo Story (The) 1982, 2001 1975
Valdez Luis Zoot Suit 1995
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