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SUGGESTED TITLES for OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS AP ENGLISH LIT/COMP EXAMS - 1974-2008 Years in Parenthesis Indicate the Year of Appearance on the AP Exam 1 SUGGESTED TITLES FOR OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS AP ENGLISH LIT/COMP EXAMS - 1974-2008 Years in parenthesis indicate the year of appearance on the AP exam. (*) means that a work will be required reading for that grade level. 9th Grade- PreAP English I *The Odyssey / Homer (1986, 2006) *Romeo and Juliet / Shakespeare (1990, 1992, 1997, 2008) *Great Expectations / Charles Dickens (1979, 1980, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008) 10th Grade- PreAP English II *A Separate Peace / John Knowles (1982, 2007) *To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee (2008) *Julius Caesar / Shakespeare (1982, 1997, 2005, 2007) *A Raisin in the Sun / Loraine Hansberry (1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2007) *Antigone / Sophocles (1979, 1980, 1990, 1994, 1999, 2003, 2005) *Medea / Euripides (1982, 1992, 1995, 2001, 2003) *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain (1980, 1982, 1985, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) 11th Grade- AP Language *Candide / Francois Voltaire (1986, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2004, 2006) *Frankenstein / Mary Shelley (1989, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008) *The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald (1982, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007) *Native Son / Richard Wright (1979, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1995, 2001, 2004) *My Name is Asher Lev / Chaim Potok (2003) *The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1978, 1983, 1988, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006) 12th Grade- AP Literature *As I Lay Dying / William Faulkner (1978, 1990, 1994, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007) *Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky (1979, 1980, 1982, 1988, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 2004, 2005) *Hamlet / Shakespeare (1988, 1992, 1994, 1997, 2000) *Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad (1976, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006) *Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison (1974, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008) *Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead / Tom Stoppard (1981, 1994, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006) *Wise Blood / Flannery O’Connor (1982, 1989, 1995) Works appearing on the AP exam continued. All My Sons / Arthur Miller (1985, 1990) All the Pretty Horses / Cormac McCarthy (1996, 2006, 2007, 2008) The Awakening / Kate Chopin (1987, 1988, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008) America is in the Heart / Carlos Bulosan (1995) Another Country / James Baldwin (1995) Armies of the Night / Norman Mailer (1976) An American Tragedy / Theodore Dreiser (1982, 1995, 2003) Absalom, Absalom! / William Faulkner (1976, 2000, 2007) 2 Alias Grace / Margaret Atwood (2000, 2004, 2008) Adam Bede / George Eliot (2006) The Aeneid / Virgil (2006) My Antonia / Willa Cather (2003) All the King’s Men / Robert Penn Warren (2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008) The Age of Innocence / Edith Wharton (1997, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008) Agnes of God / Leonore Fleischer (2000) The American / Henry James (2005, 2007) Atonement / Ian McEwan (2007) Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy (1980, 1991, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008) Antony and Cleopatra / Shakespeare (1980, 1991) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz / Mordecai Richler (1994) As You Like It / Shakespeare (1992, 2005, 2006) The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / James Weldon Johnson (2002, 2005) Beloved / Toni Morrison (1990, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007) The Blind Assassin/ Margaret Atwood (2007) Bless Me, Ultima/ Ruldolfo Anaya (1996, 1997, 2005, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008) The Birthday Party / Harold Pinter (1989, 1997) Bleak House / Charles Dickens (1994, 2004) Brighton Rock / Graham Greene (1979) Black Boy / Richard Wright (2006, 2008) The Brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoevsky (1990, 2008) Bone / Fae Myenne Ng (2003) A Bend in the River / V.S. Naipaul (2003) Benito Cereno / Herman Melville (1989) Billy Budd / Herman Melville (1979, 1981, 1983, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008) Brave New World / Aldous Huxley (1994, 2005) The Bear / William Faulkner (1994, 2006) Bleak House / Charles Dickens (1994, 2000) The Bonesetter’s Daughter / Amy Tan (2006, 2007) The Bluest Eye / Toni Morrison (1995, 2008) The Crucible / Arthur Miller (1983, 1987, 2004, 2005) Catch-22 / Joseph Heller (1982, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1994, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008) Cat’s Eye / Margaret Atwood (1994, 2008) The Centaur / John Updike (1981) Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko (1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007) Civil Disobedience / Henry David Thoreau (1976) The Color Purple / Alice Walker (1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2008) The Crisis / Winston Churchill (1976) Cry, the Beloved Country / Alan Paton (1985, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2007) Candida / George Bernard Shaw (1980) The Caretaker / Harold Pinter (1985) Coming Through the Slaughter / Michael Ondaatie (2001) The Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer (2006) The Chosen / Chaim Potok (2008) Cold Mountain / Charles Frazier (2006, 2008) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Tennessee Williams (2000) The Cherry Orchard / Anton Chekhov (2006, 2007) The Catcher in the Rye / Jerome Salinger (2001, 2008) The Dead / James Joyce (1997) Dancing at Lughnasa / Brian Friel (2001) 3 Dreaming in Cuban / Cristina Garcia (2003) The Divine Comedy / Alighieri Dante (2006) Delta Wedding / Eudora Welty (1997) Desire under the Elms / Eugene O’Neill (1981) Dutchman / LeRoi Jones (2003, 2006) The Diviners / Margaret Lawrence (1995) A Doll’s House / Henrik Isben (1983, 1987, 1988, 1995, 2005) Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / Anne Tyler (1997) The Diviners / Rick Moody (1995) Daisy Miller / Henry James (1997, 2003) David Copperfield / Charles Dickens (1978, 1983, 2006) Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe (1979, 1986, 1999, 2004) Death of a Salesman / Arthur Miller (1986, 1988, 1994, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007) The Dollmaker / Harriette Arnot (1991) Don Quixote de la Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes (1992, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008) An Enemy of the People / Henrik Isben (1976, 1980, 1987, 1999, 2007) Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton (1980, 1985, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007) East of Eden / John Steinbeck (2006) Emma / Jane Austen (1996, 2008) An Enemy of the People / Henrik Isben (1980, 1987, 1999, 2001) Equus / Peter Shatter (1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2008) The Eumenides / Aeschylus (1996) A Farewell to Arms / Ernest Hemingway (1991, 1999, 2004) The Federalist / Alexander Hamilton (1976) The Father / August Strindberg (2001) The Fall / Albert Camus (1981) The Fixer / Bernard Malamud (2007) Fathers and Sons / Ivan Turgenev (1990) Fences / August Wilson (2002, 2003, 2005) Fifth Business / Robertson Davies (2000, 2007) Faust / Johann Goethe (2002, 2003) For Whom the Bell Tolls / Ernest Hemingway (2003, 2006) A Fine Balance / Rohinton Mistry (2003) Go Tell It on the Mountain / James Baldwin (1988, 1990, 2005) The Glass Menagerie / Tennessee Williams (1990, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2008) The Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck (1981, 1985, 1987, 1995, 2003, 2006) Gulliver’s Travels / Jonathan Swift (1987, 1989, 2001, 2004, 2006) The Good Soldier / Ford Maddox Ford (2000) A Gesture Life / Chang-rae Lee (2004, 2005) Ghosts / Henrik Isben (2000, 2004) Going After Cacciato / Tim O’Brien (2001, 2006) A Gathering of Old Men / Ernest Gaines (2000) The Hairy Ape / Eugene O’Neill (1989) The Handmaid’s Tale / Margaret Atwood (1992, 2003) Hedda Gablar / Henrik Ibsen (1979, 1992, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005) House Made of Dawn / N. Scott Momaday (1995, 2006) House of Seven Gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1989) Henry IV, Parts I and II / Shakespeare (1980, 1990, 2008) Hard Times / Charles Dickens (1987, 1990) A High Wind in Jamaica / Richard Hughes (2008) The House on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros (2008) 4 The Homecoming / Harold Pinter (1978, 1990) The House of Mirth / Edith Wharton (2004, 2007) The Importance of Being Earnest / Wilde Oscar (2006) In the Lake of the Woods / Tim O’Brien (2000) In the Time of the Butterflies / Julia Alvarez (2005) The Iliad / Homer (1980, 1998) J.B. / Archibald McLeish (1981, 1994) The Jungle / Upton Sinclair (1987) Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan (1997, 2003) Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte (1978, 1979, 1980, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2008) Jasmine / Bharati Mukherjee (1999) Jude the Obscure / Thomas Hardy (1976, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1991, 1995, 2004) Joseph Andrews / Henry Fielding (1991) Joe Turner’s Come and Gone / August Wilson (2000, 2004) King Lear / Shakespeare (1978, 1982, 1988, 1988, 1990, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008) The Kite Runner / Khaled Hosseini (2007, 2008) Kafka on the Shore / Haruki Murakami (2008) Light in August / William Faulkner (1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1995, 2003, 2006) The Little Foxes / Lillian Hellman (1985, 1990) Long Day’s Journey into Night / Eugene O’Neill (1990, 2003, 2007) Love Medicine / Louis Erdrich (1995) The Loved One / Evelyn Waugh (1989) Lord of the Flies / William Golding (1985, 1992, 2008) A Lesson Before Dying / Ernest Gaines (1999) Letters from an American Farmer / J. Hector St. John De Creve Coeur (1976) The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot (1985) Lord Jim / Joseph Conrad (1978, 1982, 1986, 2000, 2003, 2007) Lysistrata / Aristophanes (1987) Little Women / Louisa May Alcott (2008) Main Street / Sinclair Lewis (1987) The Mayor of Casterbridge / Thomas Hardy (1994, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2007) The Moor’s Last Sigh / Salman Rushdie (2007) A Mill on the Floss / George Eliot (1990, 1992, 1995, 2004) The Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare (1985, 1991, 1995, 2002, 2003) Moby-Dick / Herman Melville (1976, 1989, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007) Moll Flanders / Daniel Defoe (1986, 1987, 1995) Mother Courage and Her Children / Bertholt Brecht (1985, 1987, 2006) A Midsummer
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