AP-Style Multiple Choice Quizzes

Chapter 5

James Baldwin, "A Talk to Teachers"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Education

Francine Prose, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read"

David Foster Wallace, "This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life"

Chapter 6

Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Robert D. Putnam, "Health and Happiness"

Richard Rodriguez, Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood

Henry David Thoreau, sWhere I Lived, and What I Lived For

Chapter 7

Barbara Ehrenreich, from Serving in Florida

Eric Schlosser, from "In the Strawberry Fields"

Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"

Booker T. Washington, "The Atlanta Exposition Address"

Chapter 8

Judith Ortiz Cofer, "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria"

Stephen Jay Gould, "Women's Brains"

Deborah Tannen, "There Is No Unmarked Woman"

Virginia Woolf, "Professions for Women"

Chapter 9

Malcolm Gladwell, "Offensive Play: How Different Are Dogfighting and Football?"

Joyce Carol Oates, "The Cruelest Sport"

Grantland Rice, "The Four Horsemen"

Theodore Roosevelt, "The Proper Place for Sports"

Chapter 10

Gloria Anzaldua, "How to Tame a Wild Tongue"

George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language"

Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue"

Walt Whitman, "Slang in America"

Chapter 11

David Denby, "High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies"

Daniel Harris, "Celebrity Bodies"

James McBride, "Hip Hop Planet"

Mark Twain, "Corn-Pone Opinions"

Chapter 12

Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature

Joy Williams, "Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp"

Terry Tempest Williams, "The Clan of One-Breasted Women"

Chapter 13

Chinua Achebe, from "The Empire Fights Back"

Chris Hedges, "The Destruction of Culture"

Jamaica Kincaid, "On Seeing England for the First Time"

Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"

Reading Comprehension Quizzes

Chapter 5

Francine Prose, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Education"

James Baldwin, "A Talk to Teachers"

Kyoko Mori, "School"

Sherman Alexie, "Superman and Me"

David Sedaris, "Me Talk Pretty One Day"

Margaret Talbot, "Best in Class"

David Foster Wallace, "This Is Water"

Chapter 6

Martin Luther King Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Lived and What I Lived For"

Richard Rodriguez, "Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood"

Ellen Goodman, "The Family That Stretches (Together)"

Lori Arviso Alvord, "Walking the Path Between Worlds"

Robert D. Putnam, "Health and Happiness"

Dinaw Mengestu, "Home at Last"

Scott Brown, "Facebook Friendonomics"

Malcolm Gladwell, "Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted"

Chapter 7

Barbara Ehrenreich, "Serving in Florida"

Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"

John Ruskin, "The Roots of Honor"

Booker T. Washington, "The Atlanta Exposition Address"

Lars Eighner, "On Dumpster Diving"

Eric Schlosser, "In the Strawberry Fields"

Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt, "What the Bagel Man Saw"

Matthew Crawford, "The Case for Working with Your Hands"

Fareed Zakaria, "How to Restore the American Dream"

Chapter 8

Stephen Jay Gould, "Women's Brains"

Virginia Woolf, "Professions for Women"

Benjamin Franklin, "The Speech of Miss Polly Baker"

Abigail and John Adams, "Letters"

Judy Brady, "I Want a Wife"

Brent Staples, "Just Walk On By"

Judith Ortiz Cofer, "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named María"

Deborah Tannen, "There Is No Unmarked Woman"

Matthias R. Mehl, et. al., "Are Women Really More Talkative than Men?"

Chapter 9

Gay Talese, "The Silent Season of a Hero"

Grantland Rice, "The Four Horsemen"

Theodore Roosevelt, "The Proper Place for Sports"

William Faulkner, "An Innocent at Rinkside"

Joyce Carol Oates, "The Cruelest Sport"

Kris Vervaecke, "A Spectator's Notebook"

Jane Smiley, "Barbaro, The Heart in the Winner's Circle"

Malcolm Gladwell, "Offensive Play"

Rick Reilly, "Why I Love My Job"

Caroline Alexander, "The Great Game"

Chapter 10

Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue"

George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language"

Walt Whitman, "Slang in America"

Gloria Anzaldúa, "How to Tame a Wild Tongue"

Marjorie AgosÍn, "Always Living in Spanish"

Firoozeh Dumas, "The 'F Word'"

Charles Krauthammer, "In Plain English, Let's Make It Official"

Steven Pinker, "Words Don't Mean What They Mean"

Chapter 11

James McBride, "Hip Hop Planet"

Mark Twain, "Corn-Pone Opinions"

Scott McCloud, "Show and Tell"

David Denby, "High-School Confidential"

Robin Givhan, "An Image a Little Too Carefully Coordinated"

Steven Johnson, "Watching TV Makes You Smarter"

Daniel Harris, "Celebrity Bodies"

Chuck Klosterman, "My Zombie, Myself"

Chapter 12

Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"

Aldo Leopold, "The Land Ethic"

Lewis Thomas, "Natural Man"

Bill McKibben, "The End of Nature"

Terry Tempest Williams, "The Clan of One-Breasted Women"

Joy Williams, "Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp"

E.O. Wilson, "The Future of Life"

Chapter 13

Jamaica Kincaid, "On Seeing England for the First Time"

Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"

Abraham Lincoln, "The Gettysburg Address"

Virginia Woolf, "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid"

Chris Hedges, "The Destruction of Culture"

Laura Blumenfeld, "The Apology"

Sarah Vowell, "The Partly Cloudy Patriot"

Marjane Satrapi, "The Veil"