1987 AP Exam

1.  C                     21. A                    55. A
2.  A                     22. D                    56. A
3.  C                     23. A                    57. C
4.  E                     24. E                     58. D
5.  D                     25. E                     59. D
6.  D                     26. E                     60. B
7.  D                     27. D                    61. A
8.  B                     28. C
9.  B                     29. D
10. C                    30. B
11. D                    31. D
12. B                    32. E
13. B                    47. B
14. C                    48. A
15. E                    49. C
16. B                    50. E
17. C                    51. B
18. E                    52. C
19. A                    53. E
20. B                    54. E
                 
(BOLDED ANSWERS ARE INCORRECT)                  

I had the most trouble with the poems. Analyzing the poems were troublesome and took me ages to try to decipher. The questions about the poems were also confusing (which is a "duh" if you didn't quite understand what you were reading). Vocabulary and syntax was a big part of were the troubles were.                      
   
Essay #1:

Introduction: 

• Old leisure is gone, replaced by "the rush" characterized by modern leisure (i.e. modern technology, new resources)
• Literary devices: use of personification and contrast to convey the difference between Old Leisure and New Leisure; use of imagery to help readers visualize and connect to the subject

Body #1:

• George Eliot uses personification to convey differences 
• Old Leisure: simple, honest and sincere but can be depicted as ignorance 

• Examples: "quiet perceptions, undiseased by hypothesis"; "life was not a task to him" 
• People didn't really question anything around them and so, in that sense, they lacked character  ("he only read one newspaper, innocent of leaders")

•  Tone: wistful affection, nostalgia 

•  New Leisure: a rush, no time for simple life 
• Modern Leisure is restrained; stringent and overwhelming

• Examples: "steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind"; "only creates a vacuum thought to rush in"

•  Tone: critical

Body #2:

• Imagery helps readers visualize and sense what their point is
• Helped further develop the differences between the two types of leisure 

Essay #2:

Introduction:

• Political: awareness of a totalitarian government; dystopian setting -> the unethical and immoral use of power 
• Author wrote novel as a response to communism,"Red Scare"

Body #1:

• Orwell's depiction of the "perfect totalitarian society"

Body #2:

• Government's eyes on everyone; monitoring and the control of everything 

Body #3:

• If not challenged, the totalitarian society described would occur in the near future