1. Real Exam 2: women and love Pre-20th century passage
AP Exam
Real Exam 2: women and love
Pre-20th century passage

3. HINT: Look to underlined passage selection for the claim to which the author responds in the piece.

4. Charm will become ordinary and thus ineffective
Author finds this problematic, for look at her objection in lines 23-26:
Charm will become ordinary and thus ineffective

6. HINT: Look to the word in context; what words/phrases before or after it help to hint at a meaning?

7. Too literal No comparison is made
Not about violence, aggression, protection
No comparison is made

9. HINT: Look to underlined sections.

10. Note that she acknowledges some might find her argument problematic, however, she will therefore try to be rational in its presentation.

12. HINT: Think about author’s view of love in youth vs. in old age

13. The author implies that youth is the time for passion; it wanes in old age (remember what Miley said to Matt Lauer about that?!). So, “more important years” are later on, once maturation has been reached.

15. HINT: See underlined sections
HINT: See underlined sections. Also, find an antecedent; what does “this opinion” refer back to?

18. HINT: Think about WHO the speaker is…revisit the context provided…

19. The note at the beginning of the passage indicates that the author is a woman, which implies personal experience with the topic of the plight of women schooled to please only to find her education pointless after marriage.

21. HINT: This is hard…look to the underlined passages
HINT: This is hard…look to the underlined passages. Try to figure out the meaning of “oblique.”

22. Not straightforward; deviating from a straight path
Oblique:
Not straightforward; deviating from a straight path
Distractor; need to read whole sentence for total context

24. HINT: Look to underlined sections.

25. The blue indicates how principle “restrains”
See this hint LATER in the paragraph; the woman’s education and its teachings limit her.

27. HINT: Look to underlined sections.

30. HINT: Essentially, this is a TONE question. Look at sentence structure.

31. The interrogative indicates author’s skepticism of the value of teaching women to please others.
If you picked D, I can see why; the author does think that the emphasis put on the art of pleasing is excessive, but her REGARD isn’t excessive (she doesn’t rant). That choice is a distractor.

33. HINT: Look to underlined sections.

34. NOTE: This question asks you to be able like those questions that ask you what “it” or “he” or “they” refer back to.
Author advises against linking oneself so closely to someone—in this case a husband—who will see/emphasize his wife’s faults.

36. HINT: Go through each choice; are you clear on the meaning/definition of each structure? See if that helps you narrow down. Then, even if the structure is accurate, is the adjective describing it correct?

37. The author acknowledges that there are those who don’t like arguments that seem to interfere with the nature of love; she concedes that that would be difficult, so instead she will focus on the uselessness of women’s education. She says:
Line 4: “…rather to address the head than the heart”
Line 8: “to prove that…”
Line 20: “Let me reason…”
Rhetorical questions in lines 23, 29, 33, 48 to challenge the status quo of the current focus of women’s education on instructing them to please others

39. HINT: Are any of the choices beyond the scope of the passage and what it addresses?
HINT: Review paragraph 1 and the belief that “this tumultuous pass” of love not be allowed to “dethrone superior powers, or to usurp the sceptre which the understanding should ever coolly wield…”
HINT: Note that the passage has a lot of rhetorical questions.

40. Review paragraph 1 and the belief that “this tumultuous pass” of love not be allowed to “dethrone superior powers, or to usurp the sceptre which the understanding should ever coolly wield…”can’t let emotion conquer or overpower basic common sense
Rhetorical questions also support this
Choices D and E are never addressed in the passage

42. HINT: Look to underlined passages.

43. A woman’s efforts to charm her husband wear off after time.
Men and women grow apart, so the woman’s entire education is futile, so she’ll become bitter.

45. HINT: Think about which choices just aren’t covered by the scope of the argument. What just isn’t relevant to what is discussed in the passage?

46. Nope; fidelity isn’t addressed
Passion fades (not necessarily sincerity; that isn’t addressed)
Not the woman’s job to please the man
Distractor; although married women face
fading futility, marriage hardships are broader than just that, and article doesn’t explore the many difficulties
Distractor: while the author mentions that women’s “first wish should be to make herself respectable,” she doesn’t offer alternatives about how to achieve that/about specific points regarding education for women (she just notes what that education should NOT include)