And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it! -Heathcliff-

That quote from your final AP pretest is representative of how often Wuthering Heights appears on the College Boards. Emily Bronte's novel is one of the most commonly referred to novels on the exam over the last twenty years. The following (very incomplete) list is of those novels, plays and poems that have also appeared on the exam on a regular basis (remember, this research is not exclusive to me. You can access the same info through the AP link):

An American Tragedy, Antigone, Beloved, Crime and Punishment, Death of a Salesman, Ethan Frome, Faust, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Frankenstein, Hedda Gabler, King Lear, Long Day's Journey into Night, Macbeth, Medea, Moby Dick, Oedipus Rex, "Prometheus Unbound," Ragtime, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Things Fall Apart

For the past several years, the AP language test has used fewer novels and less literary prompts, instead utilizing articles from magazines like the Atlantic Monthly, quotations from characters on a more general level and passages from more modern writing (this year's prompts (the ones you took) are now available at collegeboard.com). The AP Literature test now also includes more modern works as well, but still requires great knowledge of classic literature. (That's one of our goals.)

No one will expect that you read all of the novels on the list, but it is essential that you begin to familiarize yourself with the characters, plots and settings of even those novels you haven't read. Yikes, huh? Of course we'll work on that during our semester together, but you'll need to get a jump on it. With this in mind, in addition to the summer reading assignment, you will also be required to read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte this Fall. All three of the summer/fall assignments will be reviewed and discussed and you will be tested on the information.