AP Lang Mid-Term Multiple Choice (Finished)

1. The passage is most likely excerpted from which of the following?

(C) A Lakota author's account of his ancestral culture's history and values

2. Which of the following statements best summarizes the main claim about Crazy Horse's cultural legacy that is developed in the passage?

(B) He embodies the virtue of humility in

Lakota society.

3. According to the fourth paragraph, the battles of June 1876 established Crazy Horse's reputation for which of the following?

(E) Leadership skill on the battlefield

4. Which of the following best describes how the author represents "western American history, written by Euro-Americans" (paragraph 4, sentence 4) ?

(B) He acknowledges it while suggesting

Lakota stories offer a different perspective.

5. In his description of the United States Army's plan "to capture and herd all the Lakota onto reservations once and for all" toward the end of the fourth paragraph, the author's tone conveys which of the following?

(B)Disapproval of the Army's dehumanizing treatment of the Lakota

6. In the last sentence of the fourth paragraph, the author's focus shifts from

(D) Euro-American history to Lakota cultural

memory

7. Sitting Bull's example in the fifth paragraph illustrates which feature of Lakota culture?

(B) Warrior societies offered a path of entry into political power structures.

8. In the sixth paragraph, the author uses the story of the name His Horse Stands in Sight to illustrate which of the following?

(A) Crazy Horse's combination of recklessness and calculating calm

9. The passive constructions "he became known" (paragraph 6, sentence 2) and "he was known" (paragraph 7, sentence 2) suggest that the author holds which of the following beliefs about Crazy Horse?

(B) Stories by his contemporaries offer a credible record of Crazy Horse's life.

10. In describing Crazy Horse as "painfully shy" near the beginning of the seventh paragraph, the author offers which of the following?

(C) An attribution of an emotional quality to explain Crazy Horse's humble demeanor

11. Which of the following best explains the author's use of the qualifier "probably" in the first sentence of the seventh paragraph?

(D) The author has credible evidence of only two public speeches by Crazy Horse.

12. Which of the following is a logical conclusion that can be derived from the final two paragraphs of the passage?

(A) Crazy Horse displayed ferocity and courage in battle and modesty in dress and speech.

13. Which of the following characteristics does the author anticipate may be true of some members of the audience?

(A) They are more familiar with Euro-American accounts of Crazy Horse than with Lakota accounts.

14. In the first sentence of the passage, the speaker engages the attention of the audience with which of the following types of statement?

(C) A cautionary recommendation

15. In the context of the first paragraph, the speaker uses the word "temptation" in the first sentence to convey disapproval of the tendency to

(E) disengage from moral responsibility

16. In the first paragraph, the speaker introduces an

argument that criticizes

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(D) «intellectual aloofness" (sentence 5)

the first paragraph, the speaker suggests that

"the man of lettered leisure" (sentence 1) has a

(B)

choice regarding his attitude toward

involvement

18. The relationship between the first and second

paragraphs is best characterized as

(E) the juxtaposition of two contrasting

personality types

19. Which of the following choices accurately

describes a strategic stylistic decision that the

speaker makes in the first two sentences of the

second paragraph ("It is not .

nor defeat") ?

(B)

Clauses beginning with "who" are used

repeatedly to emphasize engaging images

of the men under discussion.

20. The primary purpose of sentences 4 and 5 of the

second paragraph ("Among . . . actually are")

in the speaker's line of reasoning is to

(D) distinguish different types and degrees of

uselessness

21. Hotspur represents an example of

(D) "the men who quell the storm and ride the

thunder" (paragraph 2, sentence 7)

22. Which observation best counters the speaker's

argument about action in the passage?

(A) Action without discretion can incur

disastrous results.

23. The passage as a whole claims that the learned

cynic's core failings are

(D) cowardice and inauthenticity

24. The speaker's tone in the passage is best

described as

(B) Critical

25. The writer is considering changing the

beginning of sentence 1 (reproduced below) to

better introduce the topic and engage the

reader's attention.

The latest findings in social psychology suggest

that self-knowledge is a more complex

phenomenon than you might think.

Which of the following versions of the

underlined portion of sentence 1 best

accomplishes this goal?

(B) *Know yourself" is a well-known maxim,

but the latest findings in social

psychology suggest

26. The writer wants to avoid revealing any potential

biases in sentence 5 (reproduced below).

Sun and Vazire conspired on an experiment to

study the latter category.

Which of the following versions of the

underlined portion of sentence 5 best

accomplishes this goal?

(E) Designed

27. The writer wants to add a sentence after

sentence 7 to expand on the narrative in the

second paragraph and provide additional context

for the third paragraph. Which of the following

choices best accomplishes this goal?

(A) These self-ratings were then compared to

the assessments of researchers who

listened to the subjects' audio recordings.

28. The writer is considering deleting the underlined

portion of sentence 10 (reproduced below) from

the sentence.

Participants often reported feeling more

neurotic- anxious or worried- than the

observers believed.

Should the writer delete the underlined text?

(D) No, because it offers information that may

be helpful to the audience in

understanding a potentially unfamiliar

term.

29. The writer wants to add the following sentence

to the third paragraph.

Sun observed that this is understandable, since

subjective feelings of unease are not necessarily

apparent to others.

Which of the following is the most logical place

to insert this sentence in the paragraph?

(D) Before sentence 11

30. The writer wants to add a new sentence at the

end of the third paragraph (sentences 8-12) to

show how the information in the paragraph

serves as evidence for the passage's primary

claim. Which of the following choices best

accomplishes this goal?

(A) According to Sun and Vazire, these results

suggest that "there might be some biases

that prevent people from recognizing their

own agreeable behaviors or disagreeable

behaviors."