"Read history: so learn your place in Time" AP Quiz

(#34) The poem is best described as

• a sestina

• an English (Shakespearean) sonnet

• an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet

• an ode

• a ballad

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

(#35) The initial clauses in lines 1-2 ("Read...sleep") are best described as

• declarations

• commands

• boasts

• concessions

• apologies

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

(#36) The tone of the statement in line 3 is best characterized as

• contemplative

• understated

• laudatory

• apologetic

• ironic

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

(#37) Line 4 suggests that "We" respond to "the crime"

• superficially

• evenhandedly

• surreptitiously

• painstakingly

• instantaneously

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

(#38) Lines 5-8 draw a contrast between

• technological and moral understanding

• physical and emotional suffering

• past and present misfortune

• moral and immoral action

• forgotten and remembered transgression

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

(#39) The primary purpose of lines 5-8 is to

• dramatize the power of the engines of modern technology

• separate base motives from lofty ones

• emphasize the increasing range and universality of human endeavor

• allege that humans fail at both sublimity and profundity

• argue that human achievements are worthless

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

(#40) In lines 9-14, the speaker suggests that "this Earth" will likely

• witness positive and negative extremes of human behavior

• endure previously unimaginable trials and tribulations

• enter a new phase of intellectual achievement

• be marred by recurring violence and suffering

• be renewed by the sacrifice of noble soldiers

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

(#41) Line 10 is notable for its use of all of the following EXCEPT

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• internal rhyme

• iambic pentameter

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

(#42) The phrase "our poison" (line 12) most likely refers to

• unbridled greed

• restless movement

• aggressive instincts

• unrelenting skepticism

• cowardly acts

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

(#43) What course of action would the speaker most wish people to take?

• resign the struggle and just learn their place in history

• stop fouling every shore with human pollution

• overcome obstacles to individual success and prosperity

• accept the fact of inevitable human bloodshed

• understand the sources of violence and work to change them

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3