WW5 Module 3 Question set 13

This item has two parts. Answer PART A; then answer PART B.

Read this sentence from the passage.

“The boys fighting in the war were surrounded by its carnage.”

PART A: What does carnage mean?

• great numbers of dead and injured

• state of great confusion

• connection among many people

• brief period of rest or calmwaswas

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PART B: What context best helps readers understand the meaning of carnage?

• “boys fighting in the war”

• “over 7,000 men would die”

• “missing in action"

• “even when not fighting”

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This item has two parts. Answer PART A; then answer PART B.

PART A: What is the author’s main point in this passage?

• Most soldiers were not experienced fighters.

• Civil War weapons were powerful and deadly.

• Boy soldiers learned to close off their feelings and get used to death.

• Many young soldiers considered the Civil War to be a great adventure.

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PART B: Which evidence does the author give to support the point in PART A?

• “In the Battle of Gettysburg alone, over 7,000 men would die and another 44,000

  would be left wounded or missing in action.

• “‘We passed over the old battlefield of Manassas. The rains of two years have

  uncovered many of the shallow graves.’”

• “They rarely dwelt on encounters with death for long and instead ignored them in

  order to get on with other things.”

• “‘I saw the body of a man killed the previous day this morning and a horrible sight it

  was.’”

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This item has two parts. Answer PART A; then answer PART B.

PART A: Which statement best compares Thomas Galway’s and Henry Graves’s points of

view in this passage?

• Both boys are no longer so bothered by the sight of dead soldiers.

• Both boys feel shocked and sick when they see soldiers killed in battle.

• Galway is angry that so many soldiers have died, while Graves accepts death as a

  part of war.

• Galway feels sad by the sight of dead soldiers, while Graves fears the sight of dead

  soldiers.

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PART B: Select one piece of evidence from Thomas Galway's account that best supports the

answer in PART A.

• “The rains of two years have uncovered

  many of the shallow graves.”

• “In one place I saw a man’s boot

  protruding from the grave"

• “leaving the skeleton toes pointing to a

  land where there is no war.”

• “Horrid sights are, to an old soldier, horrid

  no longer.”

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PART B: Select one piece of evidence from Henry Grave's account that best supports the

answer in PART A.

• “I saw the body of a man killed the

  previous day this morning”

• “a horrible sight it was.”

• “I can not describe the change nor do I

  know when it took effect, yet I know that

  there is a change”

• “I look on the carcass of a man with pretty

  much such feeling as I would do were it a

  horse or hog.”

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