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How to write the AP African American Studies source-based responses and project: exam skills quiz quiz

12questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What are the two assessed components of AP African American Studies?

  2. What does source analysis require beyond summarizing a source?

  3. What does a short answer question (SAQ) NOT require?

  4. What earns the thesis point on a source-based free-response question?

  5. Which is the strongest piece of evidence for an argument about African cultural persistence?

  6. What is the individual student project?

  7. A prompt asking you to compare slavery in Brazil and the United States is signaling which reasoning skill?

  8. Which is a valid way to demonstrate a complex understanding?

  9. On a source-based question, what is the most commonly forgotten point?

  10. Which disciplinary practice describes the interdisciplinary lens of the course?

  11. What is the best approach to the individual student project?

  12. Which thesis would earn the thesis point on a Civil War emancipation prompt?