WW Module 3 Lesson 13 Question Set

Read this sentence from the passage.

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

What does carnage mean?

• great numbers of dead and injured

• state of great confusion

• connection among many people

• brief period of rest or calm

Read this sentence from the passage.

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

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”

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.

Which evidence does the author give to support the point in the previous question?

• “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.’”

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.

Select one piece of evidence from Thomas Galway’s account that best supports the

answer in question 5.

• “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.”

Select one piece of evidence from Henry Graves’s account that best supports the

answer in question 5.

• “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.”