Christina Giangrandi - AP Q&A World History: With 600 Questions and Answers (Barrons AP)

About the Author

Christina Gentile Giangrandi earned a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in History and Secondary Education from Hofstra University in 2003 and a Master of Arts from Stony Brook University in 2006. She has taught AP World History in the Smithtown Central School District in New York since 2004, in addition to the New York State Education Department Global History course and a Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights elective. She has served as an AP Reader for the College Board and attended numerous professional development courses and study tours in order to further her knowledge of World History.

Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank Jennifer Giammusso for her assistance in managing the editorial process and developing the manuscript. I am also grateful for the help given by Annie Bernberg regarding copyright information and permissions, and would like to extend my appreciation to those who developed the artwork and were involved in the production of the book.

This work would not have been possible without the support of my husband, Andrew, my children, Marco and Arianna, and the numerous family members that helped care for them while I spent many hours working on this book. I also am grateful for my students over the years, who have motivated me and provided insight into common struggles with this rigorous course.

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Congratulations on taking the first step in preparing for this rigorous but rewarding course! This book can be used from the beginning of your AP World History course to prepare for quizzes and unit exams as well as to prepare for the AP Exam itself. It is organized by time period and key concept, and is designed to continue the development of historical thinking skills that you are learning in class, while providing exposure to AP-style questions, with both correct and incorrect answers explained to maximize your understanding of the content and concepts.

Each chapter begins with the key concept outline from the College Board that is the backbone of the course, along with a quick summary of the key concepts. include MCQs, SAQs, and long essay questions (LEQs), and some include a document-based question (DBQ).

Multiple-choice questions are based on a stimulus such as a primary source, secondary source, map, image, or graph, and appear in sets of 25 questions similar to the AP Exam. While the stimulus is generally from the time period and key concept that the chapter is focused on, some of the questions may ask you to draw from knowledge of earlier or later periods, or from different key concepts. If you come across a question on material you have not studied yet, skip it for now and you can return to it at a later time. Like the AP Exam, the questions are designed to test your application of historical reasoning skills and knowledge of key concepts rather than your ability to recall facts. You will likely encounter names, documents, and dates that you are not familiar with, but do not let that discourage you. If you study the key concept outline, complete the practice questions to hone your skills, and read the answers explained carefully, you will be successful on the exam. It should be noted that the multiple-choice section of the exam is not a reading comprehension test, nor can you ignore the stimulus. Instead, each question requires information that is not in the passage and application of a skill such as primary sources analysis, contextualization, comparison, causation, and change and continuity over time. It is suggested that you complete a question set before reading through the answers explained, as sometimes the explanation for one question may help you answer another in the set. If you are using this book for review for your class assessments as well as AP Exam review, it is suggested that you write down the answers on a separate piece of paper so you can use them for practice at a later time. Remember that if you complete the questions while studying the time period in class, the questions will seem easier than if you do them weeks or months later in preparation for the AP Exam.

In this book, short-answer questions may span more than one time period as they would on the exam, and align with the question types you would see for each time period. It is suggested that you use a separate piece of paper to write your responses before checking the answers explained. There are 35 SAQs in this book, and if you are limited on time you may want to focus on the ones from time periods 36 () because three questions will be from that time frame, although a student has an option to choose a question from periods 13.

On the AP Exam there will be three short-answer questions. Question 1 will be based on a secondary source or two secondary sources from course content in periods 36, and will ask you to explain a historical interpretation, compare two interpretations, and/or explain how historical evidence backs a claim made in the source. Question 2 will be based on a primary or visual source from time periods 36, and you are expected to go beyond quoting from the source and provide specific evidence to answer the tasks. It will assess the historical reasoning skill of comparison or change and continuity over time. You will choose either question 3 from periods 13 or question 4 from periods 46. There will not be a stimulus and the question will require demonstration of the skill of either comparison or change and continuity over time. The skill assessed in question 3 will differ from the skill in question 2. In other words, if question 2 is comparative, then question 3 will be change and continuity over time and vice versa.

On the AP Exam, a response that would earn credit must be in complete sentences and should address all three tasks (parts a, b, and c) clearly. It is best to provide as much specific historical knowledge as you can, and it is a good idea to letter your responses so you are sure to address each distinct task. If it is based on a primary or secondary source, the source must be referred to but the response must go beyond quoting or paraphrasing the passage. If it is based on an image, it must be specifically referred to in the response but the response must go beyond merely describing the image.

The long essay question assesses the skills of causation, comparison, and change and continuity over time. Even though you probably do not want to write more essays than what is required in your class, the key to success is practice! If you can set a timer and attempt to plan and write a response in about 40 minutes, you will be much more comfortable with it on the exam. There are 32 LEQ questions in this book, however, so you may want to focus on writing full essays for the time period you feel most comfortable with and planning the others because you will have a choice of questions on the exam. If you are using this book for exam review and are limited in time, then practice thesis writing and outlining the essay. Although it may be tempting to just read the answer explanation, it is better if you attempt to answer the question from memory first to determine which key concepts and time periods you should focus on when reviewing.