WENDY SCRUGGS: Hi, everyone.
And welcome back to AP Daily practice sessions.
I'm Mrs. Wendy Scruggs, and I teach AP English Literature
and Composition at Jack Reed High School in Fayetteville,
North Carolina.
So we're going to practice answering
pros multiple-choice questions.
So let's get started.
And if you want to follow along with me,
please feel free in the video link
to download the questions there or you
can look in the YouTube description
and download the PDF of the passage and the questions
today.
OK, so let's get started.
Here's our excerpt from Their Eyes
Were Watching God that appeared on my AP exam in 1987.
So please pause the video and take a moment
to read the passage.
OK, so here's our first question.
The phrase, "starched and ironed her face," the first sentence,
is best interpreted to mean that Janie--
And you can pause and reread those lines here.
So now let's look at our answer choices.
A, kept a composure by doing household chores.
B, stiffened her resolve to confront
painful memories of her past.
C, erected a facade appropriate to a formal occasion.
D, resolved her emotional ambivalence
toward her late husband or E, determined
to keep our grief under control during the funeral.
Go ahead and pick your answer now.
If you selected C, erected a facade
appropriate to a formal occasion, you're correct.
So let's look at why C is the best answer.
A, there's nothing about doing chores in this excerpt section.
So A really won't work.
B, this section doesn't talk about her painful reminders
really in this paragraph.
So we're going to not be out of the running too.
C, the narrator does compare Janie's face in the funeral
to a wall of stone and steel.
And a funeral is a formal occasion.
So a wall would be a facade and a funeral
is the formal occasion.
So we know that all parts of C do work.
D, the narrator doesn't talk about Janie
having mixed or ambivalent feelings about her husband
in this portion.
So D wouldn't work.
And E, there's nothing to make us think her grief is
so strong she can't control it.
It doesn't really say that.
So this passage focuses on her new beginning
before she's going to become reflective later
in the passage.
So E doesn't really work as well.
So C is the only answer that works with this question.
Let's try another one.
The phrase, "rollicking in the springtime across the world"
near the end of paragraph one evokes Janie's--
let's get our choices.
Here are the lines, you can pause and read this again.
A, attitude toward her own future.
B, evident panic at being a widow.
C, disdain for the other mourners.
D, preoccupation with natural events.
Or E, desperation and fleeing from reality.
Go ahead and pick your answer.
The correct answer for this portion of the text
is A, attitude toward her own future.
So let's see why the others don't work.
B is wrong because this excerpt doesn't indicate panic.
In fact, rollicking means cheerful,
so it's exuberantly lively, and that's
very different from being panicked.
C is incorrect because there's nothing
that indicates that she has contempt or disdain
for the other mourners.
D is incorrect.
It's just very random, there's nothing about natural events
other than talking about springtime.
So D is just kind of that throw away one.
And then desperation and fleeing from reality
is incorrect because there's nothing desperate
about having this lively energy wanting to join in.
So that's not what she's feeling at all.
Herself, right?
She's in her face there and herself
went rollicking in the springtime across the world.
So she's like enlivened by this while it looks like she's sad.
She's not trying to desperately flee reality,
she's enjoying her own private reality for that moment
and thinking about what is joyful for her.
So let's try another question three.
In context the phrase, "deals in scraps," and that's
in paragraph three, Is best interpreted to mean?
And you can pause and reread those lines
from paragraph three here.
Let's take a moment and look at the answer choices.
A, condemned the worthlessness of the world.
B, find beauty in unexpected places.
C, preserve the values of the past.
D, salvage what others may deem useless.
And E, focus narrowly on practical problems.
Go ahead, pick your answer.
So the phrase "deal in scraps" is best interpreted to mean E,
to be selected in your-- focus narrowly on practical problems.
You're correct.
Let's see what ruled the other options out.
A, well this is the world is the biggest thing that God ever
made, which would make it very valuable.
And that's the opposite of worthlessness.
B, there's no torque about beauty
and unexpected places in this section.
C, there's no discussion of values of the past
and them needing to be saved and preserved in this section.
So we get rid of that.
And D, there's not any talk about valuing
what others see as useless.
The only option E, works because this
does make comparisons between the horizon, being pinched,
and choked.
And it's choking Janie.
So that's not positive.
And scraps would be something small
and left over from a bigger thing.
So she would only be focusing on small or narrow thing,
or the world, or life.
And that would be very practical problems,
only this small little zone.
OK, let's try the next one.
Here's your section of text again.
Let's look at our answer choices.
A, life after death.
B, life is a married woman.
C, a return to childhood haunts.
D, the full life experience.
And E, an escape from reality.
Pick your answer.
The correct answer is D, the full experience of life.
A is incorrect because she is not dead.
So we're going to get rid of that choice.
B, she's a widow.
And this passage says she's embracing life
after her husband has died.
Not her life as a married woman.
So that would change the meaning of those lines.
C, a return to childhood haunts is incorrect
because she's not going to childhood haunts.
She may think about them, and that
is mentioned in the passage.
But she's not going there, she wants
to discover a broader world.
So C wouldn't work.
And then E is incorrect because it doesn't tell us that she's
trying to escape from reality.
In fact, she kind of wants to experience more of it.
She's looking for more of the world that she can experience.
And remember later, she even says it's OK
if she feels lonely now.
So D is really our best answer choice.
She wants to experience horizons or a broader part of the world
in life than what she has.
And the full experience of life would
fit that great journey for her.
We have another one.
It can be inferred that each man who
drove "considerable distances" in paragraph four to see Janie
was--
and again, you're welcome to pause
and reread that section of text.
And we're going to look at our answer choices.
A, assuaging his guilt for not having been closer.
B, interested in helping her preserve
financial integrity, her financial integrity.
C, concerned that she might get depressed and withdraw
completely from society.
D, hoping to convince her that he would
be a worthy successor to Joe.
And E, troubled to see Janie fail
to live according to religious principles.
Select your answer.
If you picked D, hoping to convince her
he would be a worthy successor to Joe, you are correct.
A is incorrect because why would they
feel guilty if they had never been intimate
like this part says or close to Joe?
B is incorrect because why would they
altruistically out of the goodness of their hearts
just feel guilty?
Again, if they had never been friends or intimate
to Janie and her husband.
They wouldn't normally go out of their way
to protect her financial integrity.
C is incorrect because there's nothing
to lead me to conclude that they're suddenly
worried about her if she's possibly depressed.
And that is they also didn't seem
to be worried about other women who were poor and also widows.
E, there's no talk of religion here,
so E really wouldn't work for this.
OK, let's try another one.
Which of the following best describes Janie
at the end of the passage?
So again, we're trying to focus our attention on that portion.
A, she's about to become a recluse after seeing
the world's foolishness.
B, she feels free from social constraints
and confident about the future.
C, she remains bitter about her childhood
but she is now able to forgive.
D, she has concluded that material wealth is not
necessarily evil.
And E, she's determined to ignore the intervening years
and be childlike again.
Let's go ahead and pick your answer.
So the correct answer is B, she feels
free from social constraints and confident about the future.
She thinks quite a bit about her journey and her future
in the passage, and she's trying to show her shine.
And she even says at the end that she
likes being alone for once.
She talks about how she's not being held back,
her family, or her deceased husband, she can be herself.
So B is the best option on this one.
A is incorrect because she doesn't
talk about wanting to be a recluse due to the world's
foolishness.
She actually wants to see more of the world.
So that's kind of contradictory to what's
said about her in the passage.
And then C, remaining bitter, well, she
does think about the bitterness of her childhood
in the passage, but she doesn't dwell on it?
And we're told she had found a jewel down inside of herself
and wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it
around.
Well, this doesn't have the connotation of anger that
is associated with bitterness.
It's kind of its opposite.
So C would really be incorrect.
And D, that won't work because it may seem like it's close,
she's OK with having her own money.
But Janie realizes people chase after her for material wealth.
It doesn't say that she judges it as evil or not.
She may think one way about the people,
but it doesn't say what she says about wealth.
And then E, the passage doesn't say
that she wants to either ignore the intervening years
or be childlike.
In fact, she reflects on her mother, her childhood,
and her grandmother.
And she doesn't ignore those years,
she does acknowledge them.
She thinks back on it but then, she
begins to look forward to her future.
So B really is our best option describing her
at the end of our passage.
And that location of that section
is really key for her answer.
So thank you for joining us for this quick multiple choice
practice.
And if you want more review before your AP exam,
please be sure to watch in-depth review sessions from 2021
and 2022 which are all available on AP Classroom
and in our YouTube course playlist.
So good luck on all of your AP exams.