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Othello. My AP class does things a little differently. Instead of choosing a work on the recommended list to write on when we get the test, we choose our work a month ahead of time from the AP books we read during the year, mostly classic Brit lit. During the month we read the work, and a secondary back up work a few times and memorize quotes and themes from the text that we predict will be relevant to the test. Since the AP free response question is usually applicable to almost any book "of comparable literary merit" as the suggested works, this works pretty well, I dont think anyone in my class had a problem.
I don't really think any question could have suprised me though, part of our prep was reading through the last 21 years of free response questions....
