Can you name the works most referred to in AP Literature exam free response questions, per letter?

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Enter a novel in the box below
Correctly named novels will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source: Titles From Open Response Questions
Data since 1971. For letters with multiple authors shown, multiple works are tied.
Works may include, but are not limited to: Novels, Novellas, Short Stories, Essays, Poems, and Plays
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Letter	Work	Authors (#)
A		Twain (14)
B		Melville (11)
C		Dostoyevsky (16)
D		A. Miller (8)
E		Wharton, Ibsen, P. Shaffer (6)
F		Shelley, A. Wilson (5)
G		Dickens (17)
H		Conrad (16)
I		Ellison (25)
J		C. Brontë (15)
K		Shakespeare (16)
L		Faulkner (11)
M		Melville (15)
N		Wright (10)
O		Shakespeare (9)
P		Joyce (12)
R		Stoppard, L. Hansberry (8)
S		Hawthorne (12)
T		Hurston (11)
U		Stowe (2)
V		Conrad, O. Goldsmith, B. Johnson (1)
W		E. Brontë (20)
Z		Albee (2)

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	jjf:	Jan 6th, 2013 at 19:14 GMT		10 points
	Not all the of the answers are novels. I realize the 6th bullet explains that, but why say "novel(s)" in the first two bullets?

	Geo1:	Jan 6th, 2013 at 19:30 GMT		15 points
	I tried Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead as a guess. I was more surprised that I spelled it right than that it was a correct guess.

	Geo1:	Jan 6th, 2013 at 19:33 GMT		1 point
	jjf: It says 'novels' in the first two bullets because that is what the creater entered in as the answer type on the create page. Novel was a whole lot easier to enter than 'Novels, Novellas, Short Stories, Essays, Poems, and Plays' (plus, Novels, Novellas, Short Stories, Essays, Poems, and Plays probably would be too many characters).

	LisaSimpsonOH:	Jan 6th, 2013 at 19:48 GMT		3 points
	There shouldn't be a definite article at the front of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Other than that, great quiz.

	performax:	Jan 6th, 2013 at 20:43 GMT		11 points
	Excellent quiz. Definitely need more literature quizzes on Sporcle. So how about it fellow aficionados? More literature in 2013!

	olawskye:	Jan 6th, 2013 at 21:00 GMT		7 points
	I think I probably got a higher percentage on the actual AP test than this Sporcle quiz. Underachieving for the win.

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	DashDixon:	Jan 6th, 2013 at 22:12 GMT		3 points
	Zoo Story! Possibly my favorite play.

	Megan129:	Jan 6th, 2013 at 22:22 GMT		4 points
	I took my AP lit test back in 2003....so it has been quite a long time... but I seem to remember that my test had several questions about "To Kill A Mockingbird"...significantly more than questions on "Their Eyes Were Watching God." But I am sure the test has changed significantly since 2003.

	irishailish:	Jan 7th, 2013 at 00:16 GMT		2 points
	Didn't actually understand the title at all (non American) but just started entering classic novels and it worked! Waheey!

	Wren25:	Jan 7th, 2013 at 00:24 GMT		0 points
	I spent so much time listing Shakepeare plays, but only got one of them. It's interesting to see that with 4 exceptions the list is quite different from the books we were asked to study for A level :-)

	andresg770:	Jan 7th, 2013 at 00:40 GMT		0 points
	Ugh, Ethan Frome...

	tulliuscicero:	Jan 7th, 2013 at 00:50 GMT		7 points
	The last 'V' writer is generally spelled Ben Jonson without the h.

	mrodom:	Jan 7th, 2013 at 03:48 GMT		1 point
	I actually wrote about Harry Potter for my AP Literature test and I passed. I was going to write about The Grapes of Wrath, but I couldn't remember Jim Casey's name when I was taking the exam.

	Absentia:	Jan 7th, 2013 at 03:55 GMT		0 points
	God I hated Great Expectations. So much so that 10+ years later I still get angry whenever I see it on a list of "great literature".

	Jeffhabfan:	Jan 7th, 2013 at 05:33 GMT		3 points
	Absentia, I really don't understand your hatred at all. I loved the book, it was brilliant.

	AndreasC:	Jan 7th, 2013 at 07:16 GMT		4 points
	Could you list Shelley as M Shelley, please? Shelley on its own normally refers to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

	moviegoer74:	Jan 7th, 2013 at 15:32 GMT		6 points
	AP Exam Literary Works would be a more apt title.

	Mayan:	Jan 7th, 2013 at 15:37 GMT		1 point
	I believe it would be appropriate to list 'Stowe' as 'Beecher Stowe'.

	acbc66:	Jan 7th, 2013 at 20:24 GMT		7 points
	Maybe I'm being dense, but can you please explain what the numbers mean? I've never seen an AP placement exam.

	Anonymous42:	Jan 7th, 2013 at 22:22 GMT		3 points
	I second jjf. Why not just use "works" instead as the answer type?

	Ember_Nickel:	Jan 8th, 2013 at 00:21 GMT		1 point
	I kept trying Benito Cereno and did not get it. Very glad to have gotten that question wrong as that means fewer high schoolers had to endure that book.

	rexodus:	Jan 8th, 2013 at 00:35 GMT		6 points
	acbc, the number refers to the number of years that the work(s) appeared in an exam question.

	willwoodlen:	Jan 8th, 2013 at 02:35 GMT		3 points
	mrodom: You may have passed the overall exam but you probably got penalized on the free response portion. I was told in a workshop that an unsuitable choice of literary work would cause an immediate major reduction in the essay's score, and the Harry Potter novels were brought up as a specific example to avoid.

	Thrillhouse:	Jan 9th, 2013 at 03:12 GMT		2 points
	It's a shame how few knew Invisible Man. I remember doing a paper on it in college, and being blown away by how great it was. Also, I was the only one in my HS English class who liked Ethan Frome.