1987 AP Exam

1.C
2.E
3.C
4.E
5.D
6.D
7.A
8.C
9.D
10.C
11.D
12.B
13.B
14.C
15.E
16.B
17.C
18A
19.A
20.B
21.E
22.D
23.A
24.A
25.C
26.E
27.A
28.C
29.A
30.B
31.D
32.C

47.B
48.A
49.C
50.D
51.B
52.C
53.E
54.C
55.D
56.B
57.C
58.D
59.D
60.C
61.D
                                                       Essay question one
      It is impossible for a person of today's society to be able to completely empty their mind and relax. Every moment must be filled with something satisfactory or productive or entertaining. Writer George Elliot saw this and reminisced of the leisure time of the past, when things were much simpler. Elliot was irritated by the ways of leisure in his society, where machines were meant to "create leisure for mankind" but instead made  "idleness eager" and made society want every moment filled with something. Elliot preferred the leisure of old were one can simply be content with how things are for them and unconcerned with the things of society. Elliot reveals this viewpoint of his by describing old leisure's unique qualities, and personifying it.
     Elliot describes old leisure with the qualities of a human in order to show why it is better. Elliot clearly believes in the bliss of old leisure, and the majority of his work is devoted to why old lleisure is better. Elliot uses personification to describe old leisure is better than the society of his days idea of leisure. "Old leisure was quite a different personage..." Elliot describes old leisure as a person, which allows him to describe why he likes it better as the beneficial traits of a human being. A human being unknowing, unconcerned, and content. This being, who was "happy in his inability to know the cause of things, preferring the things themselves" and of "easy, jolly conscience" , allowed Elliot to show us the benefits of old leisure as good traits of a person. Elliot used personification to elaborate on his views.
    Elliot enjoyed the leisure of old. The ability to be indifferent to the concerns of society and simply enjoy one's self. He did not like people's desire for leisure to not be simple and stuffed during his time. To show his ideal, Elliot turned old leisure into a person, and introduced the reader to a person with numerous good qualities, which encompassed his reasons for why old leisure was better.


                                               Essay Question 2
    The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a book that challenged many attitudes and traditions of the time. Written around the turn of the century, the book depicts the life of Jurgis and Ona, immigrants to America, and the horrors they face as they try to carry on their lives. During this time, workers did not have rights and worked under the tyranny of their bosses and factories that produced food were not watched or inspected for quality. In his novel, Sinclairs addresses and challenges of both of these attitudes distilled in America by showing the true atrocities of them.
    Sinclair challenges worker conditions through his character of Jurgis. Jurgis works in a meat packing factory and is constantly forced to suffer indecencies inflicted upon him by his job and his boss. Jurgis gets injured while on the job and is ill-treated by his employer. His own boss rapes his wife, and Jurgis is powerless because he has no workers right. He cannot get compensation for being injured, he cannot work with a union to end his ill-treatment, and he cannot take legal action against his boss for his crime. Sinclair shows how Jurgis's lack of rights caused this, and is challenging the attitude that workers do not need protection of some form.
     Sinclair challenges the unsanitary conditions of food industry by placing Jurgis right in one of them. Jurgis works at a slaughter house, and witnesses what truly goes into the finished product, which sincalir based of actual life. And what went on is horrifying. Things go into the food that were actually part of the food. Rats, human flesh, trash. People worked on the food without sanitizing themselves. The meat was improperly kept and often went bad. Jurgis saw this and more, and then Sinclair let the people of America see what Jurgis saw, and directly changed the attitude people had towards the places their food was mad.
   Upton Sinclair saw many problems with America during the early 1900s. But unlike most people, he challenged what he saw, and he did so in his book The Jungle. He had his main character, Jurgis experience many of the inequalities that he saw people go through every day. His accusation of this growing tradition of unfairness helped bring about much change. While the book was named after an uncivilized part of the world, it helped civilize the world for the better.