Unit 7 Progress Check: MCQ AP LANG
UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
The author most likely chose to introduce her argument by way of a personal anecdote in order to - Correct ANSWER- challenge her audience's assumptions about Wyoming residents
At the end of the second paragraph ("And yet . . . India"), the author includes a series of clauses that serve to - Correct ANSWER- qualify the argument that Wyoming's political culture lacks diversity
In the sixth sentence of the third paragraph ("She campaigned . . . and to her"), the author uses the dash primarily to - Correct ANSWER- stress a significant connection
In the context of the passage as a whole, the sixth paragraph ("Since that . . . 90 percent white") primarily serves to - Correct ANSWER- reveal the author's concern about how diversity is represented in Wyoming politics
In the sentence toward the middle of the final paragraph ("But if Wyoming . . . choose to live here"), the author uses subordination to - Correct ANSWER- highlight the difficulty of attracting minorities to rural states
In the closing lines of the passage ("I love the mountains . . . the space"), the author affirms her sense of attachment to Wyoming by - Correct ANSWER- offering a poetic description of Wyoming's natural beauty
In the first sentence, the way in which the author combines clauses after the main verb "is" ("what makes an artist . . . a good work of art") indicates that he - Correct ANSWER- attaches equal importance to the topics he intends to address
In the second paragraph, the two commas in the last sentence serve which of the following purposes? - Correct ANSWER- They separate three related objections to which the author imagines himself responding.
In the third paragraph, the last sentence ("There is no ... gold" ) does which of the following? - Correct ANSWER- It emphasizes a claim about artistic eras that has previously been explained.
At the beginning of the fourth paragraph ("WHAT . . . people?"), the author uses all capitals primarily to - Correct ANSWER- emphasize the disbelief with which he expects the audience to react to his argument
The author characterizes the Athenians as "the citizens of one out of a thousand cities" (paragraph 5) in order to convey which of the following - Correct ANSWER- Even if the
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