ADVANCED PLACEMENT MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST PRACTICE



ADVANCED PLACEMENT MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST PRACTICE

DON’T LOSE THIS HAND-OUT! KEEP IN YOUR NOTEBOOK FOREVER!

The purpose of this assignment is to give you practice in reading very difficult passages. Your faithful and earnest completion of these assignments will result in improved reading skills. You will also raise your IQ, grow several inches taller, and become a much nicer person! You will win the lottery, make new friends, and be cast in a movie with a movie star of your choice!

PROCESS: I will give you a passage from an old test. Your homework assignment will be to read the passage and complete the questions below. On the day this assignment is due, you will turn in the assignment, and then answer multiple choice questions over the passage. IN ADDITION TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS, EACH PASSAGE WILL HAVE A LIST OF WORDS AND THEIR DEFINITIONS. YOU MUST LEARN THESE WORDS IN ORDER TO BE SUCCESSFUL ON THE MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST.

Your grade for this assignment will come from your completion of the written homework, and your performance on the multiple choice test. BECAUSE COMPLETION OF HOMEWORK IS CRUCIAL, YOU CAN MAKE NO HIGHER THAN HALF-CREDIT IF THE ASSIGNMENT IS LATE.

*This is a STANDARD ASSIGNMENT that you will do once or twice each six weeks.

*KEEP this assignment in your NOTEBOOK because I’m only going to give it to you ONCE. I’ll give you DIFFERENT PASSAGES each time, to repeat this process with!

ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS IN INK, CAREFULLY AND THOUGHTFULLY, ON YOUR OWN PAPER. (Don’t turn the questions back in--remember, you will use them again . . . and again . . . )

1. PARAPHRASE the passage (summarize in your own words). Do this by paragraph, if the passage is organized into paragraphs. Be sure that your paraphrase includes all the important points in the passage.

2. Explain the passage’s CENTRAL ARGUMENT. What claims does the author make?

3. Copy down TWO ASSERTIONS that support the central argument. Explain how each assertion contributes to the author’s main argument.

4. Look up any words you don’t know the definition of. Write down these words and their definitions. Remember that you won’t be able to use a dictionary on the multiple choice

test over this passage.

5. Copy down TWO EXAMPLES of RHETORICAL STRATEGIES (one of the 3 appeals, any example of diction (word choice) or syntax (sentence structure). Identify what kind of strategy it is (for example, connotative language, parallelism), and then explain the effect of the rhetorical strategy and how it contributes to the author’s argument.

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