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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

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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