Wk16 Quiz Civil War Journal

What do the following lines from Paragraph 1 reveal? "A busy time getting them ready, and a sad day seeing them off, for in a little town like this we all seem like one family in times like these. At the station the scene was very dramatic, as the brave boys went away perhaps never to come back again."

• Union soldiers were significantly underprepared when the Civil War began.

• The outbreak of war brings Alcott’s hometown closer together.

• Alcott is upset because her husband is going off to war.

• Everyone in Alcott’s hometown is confident that the Union will be victorious.

What is the meaning of the country being “white with tents, all alive with patriotism, and already red with blood” as Alcott describes in Paragraph 12?

• The war has had little effect on the countryside that she is passing through.

• As the war goes on, she is questioning where her loyalty lies.

• She sees enthusiasm for the war’s cause, but also recognizes the cost of the violence.

• She is traveling just before the Fourth of July.

Which of the following inferences best explains Alcott’s feelings to the hospital staff she encounters at breakfast in Paragraph 17?

• A. She finds them so self-involved that it makes her laugh.

• B. She does not even notice them because she is so involved with her duties.

• C. She is so intimidated and admiring of them that she is too nervous to strike up a conversation.

• D. She detests them so much that they make her wish she was not a nurse.

How does Paragraph 16 add to the development of Alcott's account of her wartime experiences?

• A. She uses her mornings as a nurse to do everything she can to combat the atmosphere of disease and incompetence at the hospital.

• B. She finds herself motivated to work harder as a nurse because she is falling in love.

• C. She is in awe of what a majestic environment the hospital is and finds herself roaming around to take it all in.

• D. She finds the soldiers she cares for bothersome and goes out of her way to make them uncomfortable with her daily routine.

Which of these inferences about Alcott is best supported by the text?

• A. She feels pressured to join the war effort against her own wishes.

• B. She has deep affection for the men that she cares for at the hospital.

• C. She volunteers to be a nurse in Washington D.C. because she wants to get away from her family in Massachusetts.

• D. Participating in the war effort is not as exciting as she had hoped when she was back home.

Which sentence from the text most strongly supports the correct answer to Question 5?

• No competent head, male or female, to right matters, & a jumble of good, bad, & indifferent nurses, surgeons & attendants to complicate the Chaos still more.

• The man only lay and stared with his big black eyes, and made me very nervous.

• I want new experiences, and am sure to get 'em if I go.

• The men are docile, respectful, & affectionate, but with few exceptions, truly lovable & manly many of them.

What is a central idea of Alcott’s Civil War Journal?

• She is as committed to sacrificing herself for the war as much as any man who is able to enlist.

• She finds her work at the hospital to be nothing but uplifting and delightful.

• She resents the men in her hometown for being able to go off to war when she is not able to.

• Working in the hospital prevents her from getting to do the writing that she would like to.

Which sentence from the text most strongly supports the correct answer to Question 7?

• A. “Winter is always a hard and a dull time, and if I am away there is one less to feed and warm and worry over.”

• B. “I said my prayers as I went rushing through the country white with tents, all alive with patriotism, and already red with blood.”

• C. “I shall record the events of a day as a sample of the days I spend.”

• D. “A solemn time, but I’m glad to live in it, and am sure it will do me good whether I come out alive or dead.”

Instructions for Student: Drag the following details into the proper column, whether they were challenging aspects of her time as a nurse in Georgetown or parts of it that she finds to be joyful.

• Joys of Her Job

• Sickness in the air

• Challenges of Her Job

• Homesick

• Challenges of Her Job

• Having an almost endless list of tasks

• Joys of Her Job

• Having the soldiers dictate letters for her to write

• Challenges of Her Job

• Being around such a wide array of men as patients

Instructions for Student: Match each vocabulary word with its corresponding synonym:

• company

• plague

• Spartan

• military unit

• stifling

• brave

• reproach

• suffocating

• pestilence

• disappointment