A P Language and Composition

AP LANG EXAM REVIEW

3 free response questions

time: 2 hours and 15 minutes

synthesis essay

rhetorical analysis essay

argument essay

SECTION TWO

45 multiple choice questions

time: 1 hour

23-25 reading questions

20-22 writing questions

SECTION ONE

EXAM BREAKDOWN

PRACTICE EXAM

multiple choice practice

we will read an article and answer 10 practice questions together!

Multiple Choice

the principal contrast employed by the author in the passage is between...

• past and present

• wisdom and foolishness

• imperial china and europe

• technology and art

Multiple Choice

in paragraph 2, which of the following rhetorical devices is most in evidence?

• appeals to authority

• the massing of factual information

• the use of abstract generalizations

• the use of anecdote

Multiple Choice

the primary rhetorical function of lines 11-18 is to...

• provide support for a thesis supplied in lines 1-2

• provide evidence to contrast with that supplied in the first paragraph

• present a thesis that will be challenged in paragraph three

• introduce a series of generalizations that are supported in the last two paragraphs

Multiple Choice

lines 11-14 contain which of the following...

• Elaborate metaphor

• parallel syntax

• a single periodic sentence

• a compound subject

Multiple Choice

. In the last sentence of paragraph 2 (lines 14-18), which of the following words is parallel in function to “inventor’’ (line 15)?

• “clock’’ (line 15)

• “one’’ (line 16)

• “creator’’ (line 16)

• “art’’ (line 17)

Multiple Choice

In line 23, “bearing’’ modifies...

• “Imperial China’’ (line 21)

• “strangers’’ (line 22)

• “primitive islands’’ (line 23)

• “riches’’ (line 23)

Multiple Choice

The point of view expressed in “They . . . men’’ (lines 24-27) is that of...

• the author

• present day historians

• eighteenth-century British merchants

• eighteenth-century Chinese

Multiple Choice

The word “importunate’’ (line 29) is reinforced by the author’s later reference to...

• “prohibitions to foreign entry’’ (line 30)

• “formal relations’’ (line 31)

• “knocking on its doors’’ (line 33)

• “the ritual of three genuflections’’ (line 34)

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the first sentence of paragraph 4 (lines 28-29)?

• The author’s interpretation of China’s situation in the late eighteenth century

• An objective summary of eighteenth-century Europe’s view of China

• a challenge to the opinions in paragraph 3

• a restatement of the ideas in paragraph 2

Multiple Choice

Which of the following characteristics of Imperial China or Britain is most emphasized in paragraph 4?

• Britain's adaptability to foreign customs

• Imperial China’s aloof and insular attitude toward Europeans

• Britain's desperate need for foreign trade

• the splendor of the Imperial Chinese court

Multiple Choice

the tone of the passage is best described as...

• scornful and unsympathetic

• reverent and respectful

• acerbic and cynical

• serious but faintly condescending

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