AP Practice Test Number 2: Multiple-Choice Self Reflections

Question 18. In the poem, the sea is depicted primarily through its
1. Colors
2. Movement
3. Sounds
4. Smells
5. Tides

Answer: 3: Sounds
My Answer: 5: Tides

I thought of this poem having many of these images, so it was hard to choose, even when looking back it was hard to decipher which one was the main imagery of this poem. Now knowing the big picture is the waves, it's easier to see why that was the correct answer. While the other options relate to the waves.

Question 23. The Phrase "Land of Dreams" (line 31) serves primarily to support the notion that
1. Idealists will inevitably be disappointed
2. Hopefulness comes from having strong faith
3. Goodness in the world is an illusion
4. Optimism serves as a defense against a hostile world
5. Love blinds ones reality

Answer: 3: Goodness in the world is an illusion
My Answer: 4: Optimism serves as a defense against a hostile world

Reading this bleak passage about the land of dreams really being a place of morbid sorrow, sought me to think the writer of this poem was trying to at least put in a little bit of optimism because of the bleakness of reality, that it's really not a "Land of Dreams" I think thats what everyone wants to think. Really, the author was saying bluntly without subtle signs of some good, that the world's goodness is a illusion and shouldn't be called "Land of Dreams."