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Preparing for the AP Exam ■ Multiple-Choice Questions: Poetry 207 UNIT 2
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3. The speaker’s perspective is directly shaped by 5. The effect of structuring the poem with the
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PREPARING FOR THE AP EXAM (A) the initial observation of the spider spider stanza first is to
Multiple-Choice Questions: Poetry seeking to explore its surroundings. (A) establish details for comparison before PREPARING FOR THE AP ® EXAM
(B) the perceived separation of the speaker the actual comparison is made.
from their soul. (B) distinguish the animal qualities of the
A Noiseless Patient Spider (C) the first-person involvement of the spider from the celestial qualities of the
soul.
speaker with their soul.
Walt Whitman (D) the outside perspective of a third-person (C) combine the circumstances of the spider
point of view. as it is compared to the circumstances of
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(E) the all-knowing point of view that the speaker’s soul.
A noiseless patient spider, prevents bias in the speaker. (D) ensure that the spider is seen as being the
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I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, speaker’s soul.
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, 4. Which of the following BEST describes how (E) avoid any confusion that the speaker,
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It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, the spider in the first stanza serves as a met- soul, and spider are all the same thing in
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5 Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them. aphor for the speaker’s soul in the second the overall context of the poem.
stanza?
And you O my soul where you stand, (A) The spider cannot find a hold in its 6. The poem as a whole suggests a contrast
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space, “vacant vast surrounding” (line 3) despite between
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Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them, working “tirelessly.” This suggests that the (A) isolation and detachment.
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold, speaker’s soul continually fails to make a (B) love and connection.
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10 Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul. connection in its “measureless oceans of (C) hope and isolation.
space” (line 7). (D) fear and loathing.
(B) The spider is isolated in space but sending (E) patience and anxiety.
1. Alliteration in line 3 (“Mark’d . . . surrounding,”) 2. Use of the word “somewhere” (line 10) filaments “out of itself” (line 4) seeking
emphasizes suggest that the speaker is connection as it builds its web. This
(A) the journey facing the spider. (A) talking as much to himself as he is his suggests that the speaker’s soul is also
(B) the enormity of the isolation perceived by soul. isolated in its “measureless oceans of
the spider. (B) unable to accept responsibility for the space” (line 7) but working to find a sense
(C) how much the spider has explored in his actions of his own soul. of connection.
time. (C) frightened of the growing distance (C) The spider climbs to its highest point
(D) how lost the spider feels in his between himself and his soul. on the “little promontory” (line 2) and
unexplored surroundings. (D) uncertain about his own direction and “tirelessly” launches filaments with
(E) the dangers the spider perceives from his existence. no connections. This suggests that the
high vantage point. (E) willing to follow wherever his soul speaker’s soul has reached the peak of
may wander. existence but it is meaningless as all it can
do is “ceaselessly” (line 8) muse.
(D) The spider works “tirelessly” (line 5) until
it makes a connection in its “vacant vast
surrounding” (line 3) while the speaker’s
soul remains “detached” (line 7) and
cannot make its own connections.
(E) The spider “stood isolated” (line 2) Test Bank: AP -Style Unit 2 Mini Exam
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1 A point of high land that juts out into a large body of water. and overwhelmed by its “vacant vast
2 In this case, a thread of spider’s web; some spiders begin building webs by releasing filaments into surrounding” (line 3) while the speaker’s Multiple-Choice Question Sets:
the air until they stick to something nearby.
3 Heavenly bodies such as planets, sun, moon, and stars. soul “stand[s], surrounded” (lines 6–7) and Mark Twain, from Adventures of Huckleberry
4 A fine, filmy substance consisting of cobwebs spun by small spiders. does not need to seek connection as the Finn (prose)
spider does. Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask
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Question Answer AP Skill AP Essential Knowledge
4.B Identify and explain the function of point of view NAR-1.D The point of view contributes to what narrators, characters,
3 C in a narrative. or speakers can and cannot provide in a text based on their level of
involvement and intimacy with the details, events, or characters.
1.D The point of view contributes to what narrators, FIG-1.H A metaphor implies similarities between two (usually unrelated)
characters, or speakers can and cannot provide in a concepts or objects in order to reveal or emphasize one or more things
4 B text based on their level of involvement and intimacy about one of them, though the differences between the two may also be
with the details, events, or characters. revealing.
3.C Explain the function of structure in a text. STR-1.D Line and stanza breaks contribute to the development and
5 A relationship of ideas in a poem.

7.B Develop a thesis statement that conveys a LAN-1.D A thesis statement expresses an interpretation of a literary text,
6 C defensible claim about an interpretation of literature and requires a defense, through use of textual evidence and a line of
and that may establish a line of reasoning. reasoning, both of which are explained in an essay through commentary.

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