AP Multiple Choice Answers

Men; AP Multiple Choice Answers

1. Answer- D. Despite claiming that men corrupt women and cause them to become closed off, the speaker of the poem ends by saying she will stay away from men "maybe", leaving the possibility of returning to the world of men open, which goes against what one would expect her to do after her experiences.

2. Answer- B. In the beginning the speaker knows very little about the world of men, but watches them through her window out of curiosity. After the shift in line 15, she comes to realize what men are really like and grows bitter towards them.

3. Answer- A. The key is not used to represent innocence, but rather, a symbol for the isolation from men that the speaker creates for herself.

4. Answer- C. Ending with the word "maybe" suggests that while she resents her past experiences, the speaker still has a curiosity towards men that she might risk pain for once more in order to satisfy.

5. Answer- C. Option I is not personification. The raw egg is a symbol for innocence and is not personified in that quote. Option IV is merely imagery; a description of what the men's shoulders look like.

Nights at the Circus; AP Multiple Choice answers

1. Answer- E. The passage says that the countess' "spectre of her own crime... came in at once through the open gate to haunt her", which personifies the spectre of her crime.

2. Answer- D. The passage sets the mood for the rest of the passage through the development of a cold, desolate setting (pathetic fallacy), and also foreshadows the uprising of the prisoners through the fact that something unusual is happening yet the countess in unable to discern what it is.

3. Answer- B. The countess doubts the guards will ever do what she has forbidden, she becomes nervous when she senses something unusual is going on, she's left to feel her own guilt after the prisoners escape, and she's surprised when they rebel against her, but she's never curious about anything within the passage.

4. Answer- C. The phrase "an army of lovers" is addressing both the prisoners and the guards when the uprising takes place. Earlier in the passage it also addresses longing and hope felt between the guards and prisoners, showing that their love was what ultimately led them to break out of the House of Correction.

5. Answer- E. The description of weather in the beginning reflects the countess' emotions, which is an example of pathetic fallacy. The passage begins with alliteration; "Silently, surreptitiously". It also foreshadows the prisoners' escape by stating the countess' inability to identify what's unusual about the situation.