Civil WarExploration Literature American Literature Explanation The following

Civil War/Exploration Literature American Literature

Explanation • The following questions are designed to help you prepare for your Civil War/Exploration Literature Test. • The categories break down as follows: – Vocab: assesses your understanding of vocabulary words from the literature selections in this unit – “Owl Creek”: questions relating to Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” – Non-Fiction: questions relating to the Gettysburg Address and the journal/diary entries – “Frog”: questions relating to Mark Twain’s “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” – “Fire”: questions relating to Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”

Categories Vocab “Owl Creek” Non-Fiction “Frog” “Fire” 100 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 600 600

Vocab 100 • This verb means “to explain or tell”

Vocab 100 • Apprise Home

Vocab 200 • What are the meanings of the italicized words in the following sentence? “In the code of military etiquette, silence and fixity are forms of deference. ”

Vocab 200 • Behavior (etiquette) and courtesy (deference)

Vocab 300 • What verb means “to control or restrict the rights of a person or group”?

Vocab 300 • Oppress

Vocab 400 • In “The Gettysburg Address, ” Lincoln uses the word hallow to mean what?

Vocab 400 • Holy/Sacred

Vocab 500 • This adjective means “indescribable or overwhelming”

Vocab 500 • Ineffable

Vocab 600 • This proper noun is used by Ms. Bagley to describe her children.

Vocab 600 • TINY HUMANS

Owl Creek 100 • What activity opens the story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”?

Owl Creek 100 • A man is about to be hanged.

Owl Creek 200 • In “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, ” why does Farquhar hear his watch ticking as he dies?

Owl Creek 200 • His senses are heightened in the moments before his death.

Owl Creek 300 • In “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, ” which event happens FIRST? – Farquhar imagines reuniting with his wife. – Farquhar is approached by a Federal scout. – Farquhar’s board is released and he falls. – Farquhar dies of hanging.

Owl Creek 300 • Farquhar is approached by a Federal scout.

Owl Creek 400 • In “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, ” which event happens LAST? – Farquhar imagines reuniting with his wife. – Farquhar is approached by a Federal scout. – Farquhar’s board is released and he falls. – Farquhar dies of hanging.

Owl Creek 400 • Farquhar dies of hanging.

Owl Creek 500 • In “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, ” why does the Federal scout want to burn the bridge?

Owl Creek 500 • He doesn’t; he simply wants to set Farquhar up.

Owl Creek 600 • What must readers figure out in order to understand “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”?

Owl Creek 600 • The actual sequence of events (remember, the story is told out of order)

Non-Fiction 100 • What kind of document is Mary Chesnut’s “Civil War”?

Non-Fiction 100 • A diary

Non-Fiction 200 • What do you learn from Goss’s journal, “Recollections of a Private, ” that you would not usually learn from a history book’s account of the Civil War?

Non-Fiction 200 • How a soldier feels/what he experiences as events are happening

Non-Fiction 300 • Why does Lincoln deliver “The Gettysburg Address”?

Non-Fiction 300 • To dedicate the battlefield in memory of the dead

Non-Fiction 400 • What event does Lincoln refer to when he says that “our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty” in “The Gettysburg Address”?

Non-Fiction 400 • The signing of the Declaration of Independence

Non-Fiction 500 • In “Recollections of a Private, ” Goss says he stood before the recruiting office and reread the recruiting advertisement. He says, “I thought I might have made a mistake in considering war to serious after all. ” What he means is that the advertisement made the war sound like _______?

Non-Fiction 500 • It might actually be a good/fun experience

Non-Fiction 600 • What is the “great task remaining before us” that Lincoln says Americans should dedicate themselves to?

Non-Fiction 600 • Preserving the United States

“Frog” 100 • What exaggeration about Jim Smiley does the narrator of “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” make?

“Frog” 100 • Smiley will bet on anything, on any side

“Frog” 200 • In “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, ” why does Smiley act uninterested when the stranger asks about the frog?

“Frog” 200 • He wants to trick him into betting

“Frog” 300 • In “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, ” what does the example of regional dialect “He roused up, and gave me good day” mean?

“Frog” 300 • He stood up and said hello to me

“Frog” 400 • How would you restate this sentence from “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”? “If there was a horse race, you’d find him flush or you’d find him busted at the end of it. ”

“Frog” 400 • At the end of a horse race, either he’d have won big or lost everything

“Fire” 100 • What is the primary type of conflict in “To Build a Fire”?

“Fire” 100 • Man versus Nature

“Fire” 200 • What information at the beginning of “To Build a Fire” foreshadows that the man will soon be in trouble?

“Fire” 200 • The fact that it is much colder outside than he thinks it is.

“Fire” 300 • What does London suggest when he writes, “the dog did not know anything about thermometer… But the brute had its instinct” in “To Build A Fire”?

“Fire” 300 • The dog doesn’t need a device/tool to tell him how cold it is.

“Fire” 400 • What part of “To Build a Fire” represents the non-weather-related external conflict in the story?

“Fire” 400 • The fact that the man does not acknowledge the dog’s anxious/odd behavior.

“Fire” 500 • Why does the man in “To Build a Fire” finally put aside his panic about freezing to death?

“Fire” 500 • He wants to die with dignity if he cannot survive the cold

“Fire” 600 • What internal conflict does the man experience towards the end of “To Build a Fire”?

“Fire” 600 • Hope for survival versus acceptance of death