05-06-2010, 05:01 PM
Thanks for the information each of you shared! My brother and I both passed yesterday! He passed with a 63, and I got a 55.
So American Lit is doable even without reading the actual works.
If anyone is planning on taking this test soon, some of the analyzation portion is simply recognizing the book or author of the book from the quote. It's pretty obvious, like by the characters in the Scarlet Letter, the diction in Huckleberry Finn, the wallpaper description of The Yellow Wallpaper, the author of the Invisible Man, or the writing of Walden.
I was also surprised to find a quote from Ben Franklin asking who said it ("Penny saved is a penny earned"). I also had question asking who said "these are the times that try men's souls" as well as what Thomas Paine wrote. I had a question asking what Jonathan Edwards was and what "ism" influenced Anne Bradstreet. I'm a homeschooler, so that was the stuff I was familiar with and was excited to find on the test.
So American Lit is doable even without reading the actual works.
If anyone is planning on taking this test soon, some of the analyzation portion is simply recognizing the book or author of the book from the quote. It's pretty obvious, like by the characters in the Scarlet Letter, the diction in Huckleberry Finn, the wallpaper description of The Yellow Wallpaper, the author of the Invisible Man, or the writing of Walden.
I was also surprised to find a quote from Ben Franklin asking who said it ("Penny saved is a penny earned"). I also had question asking who said "these are the times that try men's souls" as well as what Thomas Paine wrote. I had a question asking what Jonathan Edwards was and what "ism" influenced Anne Bradstreet. I'm a homeschooler, so that was the stuff I was familiar with and was excited to find on the test.
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