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2. The writer is considering deleting the 4. The writer wants to revise sentence 16
underlined portion of sentence 5 (reproduced (reproduced below) in an attempt to better
below), adjusting the punctuation as needed. motivate voters in the audience. PREPARING FOR THE AP ® EXAM
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With years of experience in Congress and To this day, televised debates give candi-
around the world, Nixon was favored in dates the opportunity to portray them-
the election. selves as presidential, but looks are not
everything.
Should the writer keep or delete the
underlined text? (A) (as it is now)
(B) and looks are everything.
(A) Keep it because it provides a detail that (C) and HD TV has made it even more
will likely help the audience perceive the obvious that looks are not everything.
shift in the writer’s line of reasoning.
(B) Keep it because it provides a context (D) but voters must remember that looks are
not everything.
for the audience to help them better (E) but looks are not everything considering
understand the information later in the the importance of the presidency.
sentence.
(C) Keep it because it provides an 5. Which of the following, if included in the
introduction for the information that passage, would be the best evidence to
is disputed later in the sentence.
(D) Delete it because it interrupts the strengthen the validity and reasoning of
the argument?
reasoning of the paragraph.
(E) Delete it because it repeats information (A) The military records of both candidates
(B) A comparison of polls of people who
that was already established in the listened and people who watched
previous sentence.
(C) A list of Nixon’s and Kennedy’s
accomplishments before running
3. The writer want s to revise sentence 14 for president
(reproduced below) to better indicate the (D) Quotations from people around the
quality of the information provided.
country reacting to the debate
Obviously, most of the seventy million (E) The actual numbers of who watched
Americans who watched the live debate and who listened
declared Kennedy the clear winner.

Which version of the underlined portion of
sentence 14 best accomplishes this goal?
(A) (as it is now)
(B) Some pollsters claimed that
(C) Though listeners saw Nixon as the
winner,
(D) Nixon’s ill health was not a factor and
(E) According to most nationwide polls,

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