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If you need material for study sessions for multiple-choice testing, this site is for you!   Detailed instructions make it easy for students to write their own multiple-choice tests.  Ample opportunity is provided for intense multiple-choice practice.  Each of the many mini-tests have immediate electronic feedback.  After reading the excerpt, and choosing the best answer, click on the Red Answer/Explanation to discover the correct answer.    By reading the explanations, students begin to understand the rationale used for determining right answers on multiple-choice tests and improve their scores.  Refined writing practice doubles the learning.  Most mini-tests also include essay prompts for the same passage.  After reading the answers/explanation, students learn better guidelines for analysis that will quickly helpnthem write better essays!
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Making Multiple-Choice Tests for the English AP Language and Composition Classes

How to Make Multiple-Choice Tests
for English AP Language and Composition

Collaborative Multiple-Choice Tests Assignment

MC Slam

Rules for Writing MC Tests

Test-Taking Hints

NOTE:  Each of the following MC tests can be taken in any one of four different ways:
Option One:  Take the test online as an interactive learning tool.  Do not worry about time.  Your goal is to understand the rationale used for determining right answers on multiple-choice tests.  With his option, read the first multiple-choice question first.  Then read the passage until you find the answer to that question.  Select an answer.  Once an answer is picked, before moving on to the next question, click on the Red Answer/Explanation to correct your test.  Be sure to read the explanation to begin to understand the rationale used for determining right answers on multiple-choice tests. 

Option Two:  Print a copy of the test.  Take the test in the tradional way as a 12 minute timed test.  Select your answers by blackening the ovals on a scan sheet.  Have the teacher correct your test. 

Option Three:  Take the test on line as a 12 minute timed test.  Select your answers by placing the letter choice for each number on a separate sheet of paper.  At the end of the 12 minutes, click on the ANSWERS TO MC TEST and correct your test.  Be sure to read the explanations to begin to understand the rationale used for determining right answers on multiple-choice tests. 

Option Four:  Print a copy of four or five mini-tests.  Take the test in the tradional way as a 50-60 point 60 minute timed test.  Select your answers by blackening the ovals on a scan sheet.  Have the teacher correct your test. 

      ADDITIONAL ASSIGNMENTS INCLUDE: 

ESSAY QUESTIONS, VOCABULARY, and GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Multiple Choice Tests on Expository Prose and Non-Fiction
Joseph Addison:  "The Artifices of Tragedy"

An Autobiography

A Biograhical Excerpt

Thomas Carlyle:  "On Work"

Lord Chesterfield: A Letter To His Son

Charles Dickens:  "A Letter to Miss Catherine Hogarth"

Frederick Douglass:  from Narrative of the Life

William Hazlitt:  The Indian Juggler

Thomas Jefferson:  Political Toleration

John F. Kennedy:  Inaugral Address

Mohandas Gandhi's Open Letter to the Führer:
Adolph Hitler

  H. L. Mencken:  On Politicians

Thomas More:  from Utopia

Richard Nixon:  Resignation Speech

Francis Parkman:  from Conspiracy of Pontiac

A Poetic Essay on Toads

Adlai Stevenson:  "The Cat Bill"

Jonathan  Swift:  "A Letter from Captain Gulliver to his Cousin"

Henry David Thoreau:  from Walden

Making Muitiple-Choice Tests for the English AP Literature and Composition Classes

How to Make Multiple-Choice Tests
for English AP Literature and Composition

Multiple Choice Tests on Poetry

Matthew Arnold:  "Dover Beach"

W. H. Auden:  "The Unknown Citizen"

Emily Dickinson:  "I Died for BeautyóBut was Scarce"

Elizabeth Drew:  from Discovering Poetry

John Keats:  "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

John Keats:  "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

D. H. Lawrence:  "Piano"

George Orwell:  Old Major's Song from Animal Farm

Adrienne Rich:  "Storm Warnings"

William Shakespeare:  Sonnet 18

Dylan Thomas:  "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"

Mark Twain:  A Parody of  Hamlit's Soliloquy

Multiple-Choice Tests on Fiction Passages

Jane Austen:  from Emma

Joseph Conrad:  from Heart of Darkness

"Daughter of the Earth"

Charles Dickens:  from Dombey

Nathaniel Hawthorne:  "The Sister Years"

Edgar Allan Poe:  "The Tell -Tale Heart"

Mark Twain:  from Innocence Abroad

Mark Twain:  from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Stephen Crane:  from "A Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" Part I

Stephen Crane:  from "A Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" Part I

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