AP Skills Lesson: Approaching the Multiple-Choice Section

Question 1

Which of the following best expresses the writer’s thesis in the passage?

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Rural people must redefine community to respond to new problems and opportunities.

Question 2

In the first paragraph, the writer repeatedly uses but (lines 5–10) to do all of the following EXCEPT

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underscore tension between two different groups in society

Question 3

In paragraph 3, the writer compares the Rocky Mountain states with the Atlantic seaboard (lines 27–31) to

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provide evidence for the claim that communities are not defined by geography

Question 4

In the fourth paragraph, the author refers to a "corporate state of mind” (line 33) primarily to

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emphasize the importance of unity in rural communities

Question 5

Which of the following best characterizes the writer’s exigence in the passage?

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The need to address new wants and problems in rural communities

Question 6

How does the first sentence of the fifth paragraph ("The strength of the rural community . . . two facts”) serve as a transition?

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It introduces evidence for the strength of the rural community.

AP Skills Lesson: Approaching the Multiple-Choice Section Answers