How does the first paragraph of The Dark Game best support the central idea that the Civil War was a long war?

It shares the detail that the war lasted four years.

It states what people believed about the war at the time.

It tells how many soldiers actually died in the war.

It gives an example of a battle that lasted almost two days.

The central idea of The Dark Game is that women were involved in espionage during the Civil War. How does the author develop this central idea in the text?

by discussing the story of a famous woman spy

by stating facts about how many women acted as spies

by sharing quotations from women who were spies

by giving details about how women trained to become spies

Read this excerpt about Elizabeth Van Lew from The Dark Game . She became a spymaster, the person responsible for running a network of agents, couriers, and safe houses that was very active during the war. In addition to the spying, Elizabeth Van Lew continued to maintain her Church Hill home as a safe house and something of a local Union spy headquarters. How does this excerpt develop the central idea that Elizabeth Van Lew helped expand the role of women in society? Choose two answers.

It states how Van Lew acted as an important leader and manager at a time when women were generally discouraged from taking on those roles.

It shows that Van Lew was dedicated to a cause outside of her family and worked hard for her beliefs.

It illustrates how Van Lew became the most successful spy during the war and greatly helped the Union Army, though she was a woman.

It describes how Van Lew organized women to fight for their legal rights and equal representation in government.

Read this excerpt from The Dark Game . But Elizabeth wanted to do more than simply minister and comfort the wounded. A Unionist, believing in "one nation . . . indivisible," she needed to do more. When she learned of Virginia's secession from the Union in 1861, she felt, in the words of one historian, "profoundly betrayed." She believed that the secessionists did not represent the majority of the citizens of Virginia. She was compelled to act in any way she could to help repair a nation torn apart. How does this excerpt develop the central idea that espionage during the Civil War was often carried out by untrained citizens?

It explains an ordinary person’s motivation for conducting espionage against the enemy.

It enhances the reader’s understanding by explaining why training was unnecessary.

It changes the reader’s perception of what information a spy was able to obtain.

It adds moral complexity to espionage, due to the use of secret and dangerous methods.

Trina is writing a summary of an article on global warming. To write a good summary, what should Trina do? Select four options.

think about what the central ideas of the article are

paraphrase the central ideas of the article

write the central ideas of the article in her own words

condense the central ideas into a shorter form

make the summary the same length as the article

Read this paragraph from The Dark Game . Another thing that changed very little in the years between the wars was the means of obtaining military intelligence. Although the use of photography and the telegraph brought some technological advances, the craft of spying on the enemy's army still relied on fieldwork. For the most part, intelligence was gathered in simple ways. Prisoners of war and deserters were interrogated. The Union army was always interested in hearing what runaway slaves had to report. And, of course, both armies relied on cavalry scouts, signal intercepts, visual observation, and captured correspondence. What is the best summary of this paragraph?

Most espionage during the Civil War was fieldwork that included observation, scouting, and interrogation of prisoners.

During the Civil War, intelligence was gathered in the same ways it had been gathered in previous wars.

Photography and the telegraph were some of the technological advances that were used in Civil War espionage.

Enslaved persons that ran away, as well as prisoners from the Union Army, were good sources of information during the Civil War.

A good summary of an informational text must

state, in the student’s own words, only the most important ideas.

include all the details that the text contains about its subject.

evaluate whether the text’s author covered the subject matter well.

use phrases and sentences taken directly from the original author.

Which detail should be included in a summary of Elizabeth Van Lew’s role as a spymaster during the Civil War?

Her home was used as a safe house.

In 1864, she sent three messages weekly.

She put a message inside an empty eggshell.

Read the excerpt from The Dark Game . But how would Hall get that telegram? That would take some doing, he admitted. Then Hall remembered Mr. H., one of his trusted operatives. It was Mr. H. who had alerted MI8 to the suspicious activities of Sweden's chargé d'affaires in Mexico City, Folke Cronholm. Sharp-eyed Mr. H. had noticed that Cronholm was making frequent visits to the telegraph office, far more visits than one would expect from a representative of the Swedish government, given the limited relationship between that government and Mexico. Which inference can a reader make based on the information in the excerpt?

Folke Cronholm was secretly working for the Germans.

Folke Cronholm was spying for the Allied nations.

Folke Cronholm was a German diplomat.

Folke Cronholm was receiving many personal telegraphs.

Read the excerpt from The Dark Game . Mr. H. quickly began talking to his contacts in the city. Soon he heard of a British printer in Mexico City who had been falsely arrested for printing counterfeit money. Mr. H. intervened with the British minister, who got the frightened printer released from custody and the charges against him dropped. The printer, overjoyed to be free, told Mr. H. that he would welcome the opportunity to repay the agent for his intervention. As a matter of fact, Mr. H. told him, there was a favor the printer could do for him. Which inference can a reader make based on the information in the excerpt?

Mr. H. knew the printer would help them upon release from prison.

Mr. H. was very concerned for the falsely imprisoned printer.

Mr. H. and the printer had known each other for a long time.

Mr. H. originally had not intended to employ the printer’s help.

Read the excerpt from The Dark Game . British government leaders didn't present the Zimmermann telegram to Wilson for a few weeks. Hall reminded them that outrage was growing in America over Germany's announcement late in the day of January 31 that the German navy would resume unrestricted submarine warfare. In fact, that policy provoked the U.S. government to cut diplomatic relations with Germany in February. Which can be inferred from the information in the excerpt?

Hall knew that growing outrage among the American public would help Britain’s cause.

Hall wanted to let the American outrage simmer down before revealing the contents of the telegraph.

Hall worried that the American public would lose interest in the contents of the telegraph.

Hall disagreed with the British government’s choice to wait before showing the telegraph to Wilson.

Read the excerpt from The Dark Game . On February 24, when Hall sensed that the Zimmermann telegram would tip the balance in favor of the U.S. joining the Allied forces, the British home secretary presented the telegram to President Wilson. One week later, news of the Zimmermann telegram was splashed across the front page of American newspapers. On April 6, 1917, the Congress of the United States declared war on Germany and its allies. Which inference can be made based on the information in the excerpt?

The Americans were persuaded to join the war against Germany after seeing the telegram.

The Americans had already planned to enter the war before being shown the telegram.

The Americans were still very reluctant to join the Allied nations in a war against Germany.

The Americans were not very troubled by the contents of the telegram by the time they saw them.

Read the excerpt from The Dark Game . Cable messages from Europe to the United States traveled through transatlantic cables that passed deep in the English Channel. The British saw the cables as an opportunity to gain access to secret diplomatic messages sent from Berlin to its ambassador in Washington, D.C. Knowing they couldn't tap the cables the way they could tap phone lines, the British did the next best thing. The cable ship Telconia cut all five of the cables that carried communications through the channel. To make sure that the sabotage had a lasting effect, the Telconia rolled up a few of the cable ends on her drums and carried them to England. This act of sabotage was Great Britain's first offensive act of the war. Which inference can a reader make based on the information in the excerpt?

The Germans often sent important messages concerning their war efforts to their ambassador in Washington, D.C.

Although the British cut the underwater cables, the Germans planned to lay new ones as quickly as possible.

Without the underwater cables, the Germans had no way of communicating with their ambassadors.

The German ambassador in Washington, D.C. was unaware that the cables had been cut by the British.

Read the excerpt from The Dark Game . As a result of the cut cables, Germany lost its most secure long-distance communications system. The Germans now had to rely on radio transmissions from their powerful wireless station at Nauen, a few miles from Berlin. Which was exactly what the British military knew they would have to do. And once the Germans began sending wireless messages, MI8, the British code breakers, began plucking them from the air. Of course, all German correspondence was sent in a complicated cipher system, so that was when the hard work began for the code breakers of MI8. Which piece of textual evidence best supports the inference that the Germans could not lay new cables in the waters of the English Channel?

The Germans now had to rely on radio transmissions from their powerful wireless station at Nauen, a few miles from Berlin.

Which was exactly what the British military knew they would have to do.

And once the Germans began sending wireless messages, MI8, the British code breakers, began plucking them from the air.

Of course, all German correspondence was sent in a complicated cipher system, so that was when the hard work began for the code breakers of MI8.

Read the excerpt from The Dark Game . The Russian admiralty decided that their British allies could make better use of the codebook than they could, so it was sent to London. The codebook was a bonanza for the British code breakers. Not only did it contain the columns of code "words"—groups of randomly selected numbers—on which the messages were based, but it also included a changeable key to the cipher systems used to obscure the coded messages. Which piece of textual evidence best supports the inference that the British had better code breakers than the Russians did?

The Russian admiralty decided that their British allies could make better use of the codebook than they could, so it was sent to London.

The codebook was a bonanza for the British code breakers.

Not only did it contain the columns of code "words"—groups of randomly selected numbers—on which the messages were based

[B]ut it also included a changeable key to the cipher systems used to obscure the coded messages.

Dark Game

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

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What is the central idea of the first paragraph of The Dark Game?

The Civil War was a short conflict between the North and the South.

The Civil War lasted longer than people at first expected it to last.

During the Civil War, there were many casualties on both sides.

During the Civil War, Fort Sumter was overtaken by the Confederacy.

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Which excerpt best states the central idea of the second paragraph of The Dark Game?

Most of the war was fought in states south of Washington, D.C. . . .

For the Union soldiers, this meant they had to fight in unfamiliar and hostile territory.

This matter of geography affected the spies who worked behind enemy lines.

Confederate spies could usually find a safe house, or at least a sympathetic soul . . .

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Which excerpt best states the central idea of the third paragraph of The Dark Game?

most . . . spies of the Civil War were amateurs

spying was . . . easy for both sides

. . . the chances of getting caught were low

as the war progressed . . . some spies were caught and executed

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Read this paragraph from The Dark Game.
To assure that the intelligence reached the commanders as quickly as possible—the postal services having become slow and unreliable—Van Lew created a system of couriers that moved the intelligence on its way without burdening one operative with the responsibility (and danger) of making the entire trip. She also created a credible cover story for each of her couriers, should they be stopped and questioned along the way.
The central idea of this paragraph is that

the postal service at the time was slow and unreliable.

secret intelligence needed to reach the commanders quickly.

Van Lew used multiple messengers to get her information across.

Van Lew gave all her couriers a believable cover story to hide their mission.

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In The Dark Game, what is the central idea of the section about Elizabeth Van Lew?

Elizabeth Van Lew used her servants to transport information.

Elizabeth Van Lew helped many prisoners escape from Libby Prison.

Elizabeth Van Lew obtained information from enemy prisoners.

Elizabeth Van Lew was a valuable and legendary spy in the Civil War.

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Read this paragraph from The Dark Game.
Realizing that they could do more if they banded together, groups of the Richmond Unionists began to organize. As Van Lew built stronger relationships with wounded soldiers, the Unionists made plans to hide Union soldiers who escaped from Libby Prison. In fact, the Van Lew mansion became a primary safe house, a place where escaped prisoners would be hidden and cared for. Elizabeth, her mother, and their servants did all they could to prepare the escaped soldiers for the treacherous journey behind enemy lines as they attempted to rejoin their fellow soldiers. The Unionists well understood that every escapee was a potential source of valuable military intelligence, and they made certain that each soldier was debriefed before starting back to the Union lines.
This paragraph is mainly about how

Van Lew prepared the Union soldiers to return to their army.

Van Lew’s home was a safe house for escaped Union soldiers.

Van Lew obtained information from escaped Union soldiers.

Van Lew’s mother and servants were part of her secret operation.

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In The Dark Game, how does the author develop the central idea that Elizabeth Van Lew was a spymaster during the Civil War?

by including details about the work that Van Lew did

by recounting an anecdote that Van Lew tells in her own words

by citing an example of Van Lew’s coded messages

by illustrating the technology that Van Lew had available to her

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