AP Practice Test: Video 2 Answers (25 Questions) — Questions and Answers

Question 1: A contrast between what a character expects and what actually happens is called:

Situational irony (Correct answer)
Verbal irony
Dramatic irony
Cosmic justice

Correct answer: Situational irony

Situational irony occurs when the outcome is contrary to what was expected.

Question 2: The 'omniscient' point of view means the narrator:

Addresses the reader as 'you'
Is a character within the story
Only knows one character's mind
Knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters (Correct answer)

Correct answer: Knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters

An omniscient narrator has full access to every character's inner life.

Question 3: In Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible,' the Salem witch trials serve as an allegory for:

McCarthyism and 1950s anti-communist hysteria (Correct answer)
The American Revolution
World War II
The Civil Rights Movement

Correct answer: McCarthyism and 1950s anti-communist hysteria

Miller used the witch trials to critique the McCarthy-era Red Scare.

Question 4: In Orwell's '1984,' the concept of 'doublethink' refers to:

Thinking twice before acting
Speaking in a coded second language
Reading between the lines
Holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously (Correct answer)

Correct answer: Holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously

Doublethink is accepting two mutually contradictory ideas as both true.

Question 5: In 'Lord of the Flies,' the conch shell primarily represents:

Order and civilized authority (Correct answer)
Adult supervision
Savagery and chaos
Religious faith

Correct answer: Order and civilized authority

The conch symbolizes structure, democracy, and civilization among the boys.

Question 6: The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine asserted that the U.S. could do what?

Withdraw from world affairs
Intervene in Latin American nations to maintain stability (Correct answer)
Annex all of Central America
Ban European immigration

Correct answer: Intervene in Latin American nations to maintain stability

The Roosevelt Corollary claimed a U.S. right to act as an international police power in the Western Hemisphere.

Question 7: What did the Lend-Lease Act of 1941 allow the U.S. to do?

Supply war materials to Allied nations (Correct answer)
Annex Canadian provinces
Draft soldiers from Britain
Declare war on Japan

Correct answer: Supply war materials to Allied nations

Lend-Lease let the U.S. provide arms and supplies to the Allies before formally entering WWII.

Question 8: What was the immediate cause cited for U.S. entry into the Spanish-American War in 1898?

The explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor (Correct answer)
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
The sinking of the Lusitania
The Zimmermann Telegram

Correct answer: The explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor

The sinking of the USS Maine, amid yellow journalism, galvanized support for war with Spain.

Question 9: President Wilson's stated reason for entering World War I was to make the world what?

Safe for democracy (Correct answer)
Free of all monarchy
A single global empire
Economically isolated

Correct answer: Safe for democracy

Wilson framed U.S. entry as a crusade to make the world 'safe for democracy.'

Question 10: What were Wilson's Fourteen Points primarily intended to outline?

Domestic economic reforms
A plan for westward expansion
His vision for a just post-WWI peace (Correct answer)
A military strategy for invading Germany

Correct answer: His vision for a just post-WWI peace

The Fourteen Points laid out Wilson's principles for a lasting postwar peace, including self-determination.

Question 11: The Korean War ended in 1953 with what outcome?

A communist takeover of the entire peninsula
An armistice near the prewar 38th parallel (Correct answer)
Reunification of Korea under U.S. control
A formal peace treaty signed by all parties

Correct answer: An armistice near the prewar 38th parallel

An armistice halted fighting near the 38th parallel, leaving Korea divided as before.

Question 12: The policy of containment, articulated in George Kennan's 'Long Telegram,' was primarily aimed at which goal?

Preventing the further spread of Soviet communism (Correct answer)
Establishing a permanent military alliance with China
Rolling back existing communist regimes by force
Promoting free trade with the Soviet Union

Correct answer: Preventing the further spread of Soviet communism

Containment sought to stop the expansion of Soviet influence rather than to overthrow existing communist governments.

Question 13: The Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955–1956 was sparked by the arrest of whom?

Fannie Lou Hamer
Ella Baker
Rosa Parks (Correct answer)
Ruby Bridges

Correct answer: Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks's arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat ignited the year-long boycott.

Question 14: Roe v. Wade (1973) established what?

The right to same-sex marriage
A constitutional right to abortion (Correct answer)
The end of school segregation
Voting rights for 18-year-olds

Correct answer: A constitutional right to abortion

The Supreme Court ruled that the constitutional right to privacy protected a woman's choice to have an abortion.

Question 15: The 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' (1963) defended what idea?

Violent armed resistance
Separation of the races into independent states
Nonviolent civil disobedience against unjust laws (Correct answer)
Gradual voluntary integration over decades

Correct answer: Nonviolent civil disobedience against unjust laws

King argued that citizens have a moral duty to disobey unjust laws through nonviolent means.

Question 16: A filibuster is a tactic most associated with which body, and it is ended by what mechanism?

The House, ended by the Rules Committee
The Senate, ended by a cloture vote (Correct answer)
The Supreme Court, ended by a writ
The House, ended by a discharge petition

Correct answer: The Senate, ended by a cloture vote

Filibusters occur in the Senate and can be ended by invoking cloture, typically requiring 60 votes.

Question 17: In United States v. Lopez (1995), the Supreme Court limited Congress's power under which clause?

The Commerce Clause (Correct answer)
The Necessary and Proper Clause
The Equal Protection Clause
The Supremacy Clause

Correct answer: The Commerce Clause

Lopez held that carrying a gun near schools was not economic activity, limiting Congress's Commerce Clause reach.

Question 18: The Twenty-Sixth Amendment is significant because it:

Lowered the voting age to 18 (Correct answer)
Granted women the right to vote
Abolished the poll tax
Limited presidents to two terms

Correct answer: Lowered the voting age to 18

The Twenty-Sixth Amendment set the national voting age at 18.

Question 19: In Marbury v. Madison (1803), the Supreme Court established the principle of:

Executive privilege
Judicial review (Correct answer)
Selective incorporation
Dual federalism

Correct answer: Judicial review

Marbury established judicial review, the power of courts to declare laws unconstitutional.

Question 20: Which of the following is a function of political parties in the United States?

Drafting Supreme Court opinions
Setting interest rates
Recruiting candidates and mobilizing voters (Correct answer)
Issuing executive orders

Correct answer: Recruiting candidates and mobilizing voters

Parties recruit and nominate candidates, organize campaigns, and work to turn out voters.

Question 21: Cathodic protection of a steel pipeline often uses a sacrificial anode made of:

Magnesium or zinc (Correct answer)
Copper
Gold
Platinum

Correct answer: Magnesium or zinc

Magnesium or zinc oxidizes preferentially, protecting the steel as a sacrificial anode.

Question 22: In a hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen gas is supplied to the anode where it is:

Neutralized
Reduced
Condensed to liquid
Oxidized (Correct answer)

Correct answer: Oxidized

Hydrogen is oxidized to protons and electrons at the fuel cell anode.

Question 23: In the cell notation Zn | Zn²⁺ || Cu²⁺ | Cu, what does the double vertical line represent?

The salt bridge (Correct answer)
A phase boundary at the electrode
The anode
The voltmeter

Correct answer: The salt bridge

The double line denotes the salt bridge separating the two half-cells.

Question 24: A metal with a very negative standard reduction potential tends to be a:

Strong reducing agent (Correct answer)
Strong oxidizing agent
Poor conductor
Noble metal

Correct answer: Strong reducing agent

A very negative reduction potential means the metal is easily oxidized, acting as a strong reducing agent.

Question 25: In a salt bridge containing KNO₃, which ions migrate toward the anode compartment?

Electrons
Cations (K⁺)
Anions (NO₃⁻) (Correct answer)
Neither ion moves

Correct answer: Anions (NO₃⁻)

Anions migrate toward the anode to balance the positive charge from oxidation.

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