AP Lang Practice Test Questions with Verified
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1. Which of the following best characterizes the author's purpose in the passage?
A. To describe how a potentially harmful tendency helped her to succeed as a writer
2. In the fifth paragraph, the author mentions that she "got up at two or three in the
morning and wrote" primarily to
A. demonstrate the intensity of her devotion to writing
3. In the ninth paragraph, the author makes which of the following claims about the
early years of her writing career?
D. She continued writing despite lacking confidence in her ability.
Which of the following sentences, if placed before sentence 1, would both capture the
audiences interest and provide the most effective introduction to the topic of the
paragraph
On September 23,1999, NASA officials were aghast when the $125 million Mars Climate
Orbiter vanished as it prepared to enter the red planets orbit.
In sentence 2, the writer wants an effective transition from the introductory paragraph
to the main idea of the passage.
(as it is now)
In sentence 3 which of the following versions of the underlined text best establishes the
writers position on the main argument of the passage?
Needs to adopt the metric system
Correct Answers
1. Which of the following best characterizes the author's purpose in the passage?
A. To describe how a potentially harmful tendency helped her to succeed as a writer
2. In the fifth paragraph, the author mentions that she "got up at two or three in the
morning and wrote" primarily to
A. demonstrate the intensity of her devotion to writing
3. In the ninth paragraph, the author makes which of the following claims about the
early years of her writing career?
D. She continued writing despite lacking confidence in her ability.
Which of the following sentences, if placed before sentence 1, would both capture the
audiences interest and provide the most effective introduction to the topic of the
paragraph
On September 23,1999, NASA officials were aghast when the $125 million Mars Climate
Orbiter vanished as it prepared to enter the red planets orbit.
In sentence 2, the writer wants an effective transition from the introductory paragraph
to the main idea of the passage.
(as it is now)
In sentence 3 which of the following versions of the underlined text best establishes the
writers position on the main argument of the passage?
Needs to adopt the metric system
