MASTER INDEX of AP Eng Lang Exam Questions
Master Index of AP Lang Exam Questions by Type & Years
Original August 23, 2003, reprint: 5/30/12
COMPARE AND CONTRAST -- Two Selections
First Satellite in Space (85)
Momaday & Brown (86)
Galapagos Islands
Marriage proposals* (93)
Coca Cola letters (satire) (98)
**Okefenokee swamps (99)
Audubon & Dillard on birds (03)
Richard Rodriguez, “Days of Obligation,” contrasts Mexico & CA (04)
Wilson satirizes unproductive nature of environmental discussions (satire) (09)
PASSAGE ANALYSIS
Memoir or
Passage from an autobiography
Autobio
Richard Rodriquez on his family
Frederick Douglass on escaping slavery & autobiography (97)
Gary Soto autobiography (96)
Meena Alexander, “Fault Lines” (97)
Jamaica Kincaid, “On Seeing Eng. for the First Time” (99)
Eudora Welty, “One Writer’s Beginnings” (00)
**Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being, childhood summers (02)
Essay,
passage from nonfiction or newspaper
Letters
Speeches
Igor Stravinsky discusses orchestra conductors
Martin Luther King, Jr., “Why We Can’t Wait”
Joan Didion, Santa Ana winds
Nancy Mairs, “Cripple” (92)
DEFINITION
E.M. Forster, “My Wood” (93)
Sir Savile about King Charles II* (94)
Ellen Goodman, “Company Man” (95)
Mary Oliver, Owls (01)
Richard Rodriguez, “Days of Obligation,” explore conflicting feelings (04)
**Jennifer Price, “Pink Flamingo” (06)
William Hazlitt, “On the Want of Money” “how he develops his position about money (06)
Scott Russell Sanders, Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World,
“perspective about moving” (07)
John Barry, The Great Influenza, characterization of scientific research (08)
Lady Montagu’s letter to her daughter (96)*
Charles Lamb’s letter to William Wordsworth* (98)
George Eliot letter to an American woman (01)
Lord Chesterfield’s letter to his son (04)
Benjamin Banneker’s letter to Jefferson, argument against slavery (10)
Queen Elizabeth to her troops* (92)
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (02)
**Alfred Green 1861 speech to African Americans (03)
Florence Kelley 1905
Original August 23, 2003, reprint: 5/30/12
COMPARE AND CONTRAST -- Two Selections
First Satellite in Space (85)
Momaday & Brown (86)
Galapagos Islands
Marriage proposals* (93)
Coca Cola letters (satire) (98)
**Okefenokee swamps (99)
Audubon & Dillard on birds (03)
Richard Rodriguez, “Days of Obligation,” contrasts Mexico & CA (04)
Wilson satirizes unproductive nature of environmental discussions (satire) (09)
PASSAGE ANALYSIS
Memoir or
Passage from an autobiography
Autobio
Richard Rodriquez on his family
Frederick Douglass on escaping slavery & autobiography (97)
Gary Soto autobiography (96)
Meena Alexander, “Fault Lines” (97)
Jamaica Kincaid, “On Seeing Eng. for the First Time” (99)
Eudora Welty, “One Writer’s Beginnings” (00)
**Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being, childhood summers (02)
Essay,
passage from nonfiction or newspaper
Letters
Speeches
Igor Stravinsky discusses orchestra conductors
Martin Luther King, Jr., “Why We Can’t Wait”
Joan Didion, Santa Ana winds
Nancy Mairs, “Cripple” (92)
DEFINITION
E.M. Forster, “My Wood” (93)
Sir Savile about King Charles II* (94)
Ellen Goodman, “Company Man” (95)
Mary Oliver, Owls (01)
Richard Rodriguez, “Days of Obligation,” explore conflicting feelings (04)
**Jennifer Price, “Pink Flamingo” (06)
William Hazlitt, “On the Want of Money” “how he develops his position about money (06)
Scott Russell Sanders, Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World,
“perspective about moving” (07)
John Barry, The Great Influenza, characterization of scientific research (08)
Lady Montagu’s letter to her daughter (96)*
Charles Lamb’s letter to William Wordsworth* (98)
George Eliot letter to an American woman (01)
Lord Chesterfield’s letter to his son (04)
Benjamin Banneker’s letter to Jefferson, argument against slavery (10)
Queen Elizabeth to her troops* (92)
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (02)
**Alfred Green 1861 speech to African Americans (03)
Florence Kelley 1905