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# AP English Language Guided Practice

## Overview

Fiveable has 11,146 AP English Language multiple-choice practice questions across 12 units, plus 99 stimulus-based question sets built around a source. Practice one unit or topic at a time.

## Practice Questions by Unit

- Unit 1 – Claims, Reasoning, and Evidence: 1,191 multiple-choice questions, 17 stimulus sets
- Unit 2 – Organizing Information for a Specific Audience: 1,413 multiple-choice questions, 14 stimulus sets
- Unit 3 – Perspectives and How Arguments Relate: 1,699 multiple-choice questions
- Unit 4 – How writers develop arguments, intros, and conclusions: 954 multiple-choice questions, 10 stimulus sets
- Unit 5 – How a writer brings all parts of an argument together: 1,493 multiple-choice questions
- Unit 6 – Position, Perspective, and Bias: 687 multiple-choice questions, 26 stimulus sets
- Unit 7 – Successful and Unsuccessful Arguments: 1,546 multiple-choice questions, 4 stimulus sets
- Unit 8 – Stylistic Choices: 1,051 multiple-choice questions, 28 stimulus sets
- Unit 9 – Developing a Complex Argument: 747 multiple-choice questions
- The Synthesis Essay: 135 multiple-choice questions
- The Argument Essay: 113 multiple-choice questions
- The Rhetorical Analysis Essay: 117 multiple-choice questions

## Sample Question

**The Souls of Black Folk**

> “Entbehren sollst du, sollst entbehren.”
>
> They made their mistakes, those who planted Fisk and Howard and Atlanta
> before the smoke of battle had lifted; they made their mistakes, but
> those mistakes were not the things at which we lately laughed somewhat
> uproariously. They were right when they sought to found a new
> educational system upon the University: where, forsooth, shall we
> ground knowledge save on the broadest and deepest knowledge? The roots
> of the tree, rather than the leaves, are the sources of its life; and
> from the dawn of history, from Academus to Cambridge, the culture of
> the University has been the broad foundation-stone on which is built
> the kindergarten’s A B C.
>
> But these builders did make a mistake in minimizing the gravity of the
> problem before them; in thinking it a matter of years and decades; in
> therefore building quickly and laying their foundation carelessly, and
> lowering the standard of knowing, until they had scattered haphazard
> through the South some dozen poorly equipped high schools and miscalled
> them universities. They forgot, too, just as their successors are
> forgetting, the rule of inequality:—that of the million black youth,
> some were fitted to know and some to dig; that some had the talent and
> capacity of university men, and some the talent and capacity of
> blacksmiths; and that true training meant neither that all should be
> college men nor all artisans, but that the one should be made a
> missionary of culture to an untaught people, and the other a free
> workman among serfs. And to seek to make the blacksmith a scholar is
> almost as silly as the more modern scheme of making the scholar a
> blacksmith; almost, but not quite.

Source: The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

The opening reference to Fisk, Howard, and Atlanta as institutions planted “before the smoke of battle had lifted” primarily establishes the writer’s purpose as

- (A) defending an ambitious educational vision shaped by urgent postwar conditions
- (B) showing that wartime conditions dictated the schools’ course offerings
- (C) arguing that the schools prospered because they avoided long-term planning
- (D) suggesting later critics misread the schools by ignoring their founding crisis

**Answer: (A)** By placing the schools immediately after the Civil War and then saying “They made their mistakes” but “were right” to found education on the university, Du Bois frames his purpose as both sympathetic and corrective.

## Related Practice

- [Synthesis Essay practice: Synthesis Essay questions scored by part](/ap-lang/frqs/synthesis-essay)
- [Rhetorical Analysis Essay practice: Rhetorical Analysis Essay questions scored by part](/ap-lang/frqs/rhetorical-analysis)
- [Argument Essay practice: Argument Essay questions scored by part](/ap-lang/frqs/argument-essay)
- [AP English Language unit tests: a timed practice test for every unit](/ap-lang/unit-test)
- [AP English Language full-length practice exams](/ap-lang/practice-exams)
- [AP English Language subject hub](/ap-lang)

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