If it was assigned, and if he's expecting to pass the AP test with high enough scores, he should have been read for that quiz.
Our History classes were combined, honors and AP students together. The difference was at the end, where the project was different for the intended-AP students, and of course the AP students took those courses. I'm quite sure we all were given pop quizes, b/c we were expected to stay on top of the reading. LOL, I just found one of the books we read as a free Kindle download, and plan to read it again...I look forward to actually *understanding* what they were saying this time!
Honestly, college was easier than HS for me. My frosh English class had us reading Stephen King (don't recall which novel), listening to Bruce Springsteen (that was actually awful for me, I dislike most of his music), that sort of thing. It was mostly very interesting, I learned a lot, and it was vastly different from having to read Heart of Darkness twice (the whole class did, after we ALL failed the essay on it, and this was an honors class) or trying to figure out Chaucer's odd choices in spelling, or wondering why they were having 15 year olds reading about Romeo and Juliet (why give us more dramatic ideas, ya know?).
At my university, I knew people who were going the English and History route, instead of the sciences, because...wait for it...English/History/PolySci classes started around noon, but the science classes started at 8am....
Oh that's AWFUL. I'm glad the dean was on your side!
I had a tenured prof, the head of the Math department, give extra credit questions on The Beatles.I was struggling to learn Linear Algebra from a teacher who was completely checked out of teaching; I didn't have the time to study up on who wrote Abbey Road and so on...and I didn't know it already b/c having a hippie mom meant that I rebelled against her interests, and actively disliked most of their music...
I failed, thanks to my inability to understand his style of teaching and not being able to get a few extra points from the classwork...took it the next semester from a prof who liked TEACHING, and passed it. Whew.
