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AP Practice Test 1
April 24, 2009
Question 1: Lit Analysis Essay
The passages that follow were published shortly after the appearance of Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein in 1818. At that time, very few people knew the identity of author. The first
passage has been extracted from an anonymous peiece from the Quarterly Review. The
second part is of Sir Walter Scott's review in the Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.