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Civil War/Exploration Literature

American Literature

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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”

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Vocab 100

• This verb means “to explain or tell”

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Vocab 100

• Apprise

Home

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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.”

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Vocab 200

• Behavior (etiquette) and courtesy (deference)

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Vocab 300

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

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Vocab 300

• Oppress

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Vocab 400

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

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Vocab 400

• Holy/Sacred

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Vocab 500

• This adjective means “indescribable or overwhelming”

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Vocab 500

• Ineffable

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Vocab 600

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

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Vocab 600

• TINY HUMANS

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Owl Creek 100

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

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Owl Creek 100

• A man is about to be hanged.

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Owl Creek 200

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

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Owl Creek 200

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

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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.

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Owl Creek 300

• Farquhar is approached by a Federal scout.

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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.

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Owl Creek 400

• Farquhar dies of hanging.

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Owl Creek 500

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

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Owl Creek 500

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

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Owl Creek 600

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

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Owl Creek 600

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

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Non-Fiction 100

• What kind of document is Mary Chesnut’s “Civil War”?

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Non-Fiction 100

• A diary

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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?

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Non-Fiction 200

• How a soldier feels/what he experiences as events are happening

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Non-Fiction 300

• Why does Lincoln deliver “The Gettysburg Address”?

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Non-Fiction 300

• To dedicate the battlefield in memory of the dead

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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”?

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Non-Fiction 400

• The signing of the Declaration of Independence

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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 _______?

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Non-Fiction 500

• It might actually be a good/fun experience

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Non-Fiction 600

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

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Non-Fiction 600

• Preserving the United States

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“Frog” 100

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

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“Frog” 100

• Smiley will bet on anything, on any side

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“Frog” 200

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

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“Frog” 200

• He wants to trick him into betting

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“Frog” 300

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

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“Frog” 300

• He stood up and said hello to me

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“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.”

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“Frog” 400

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

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“Fire” 100

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

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“Fire” 100

• Man versus Nature

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“Fire” 200

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

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“Fire” 200

• The fact that it is much colder outside than he thinks it is.

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“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”?

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“Fire” 300

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

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“Fire” 400

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

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“Fire” 400

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

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“Fire” 500

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

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“Fire” 500

• He wants to die with dignity if he cannot survive the cold

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“Fire” 600

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

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“Fire” 600

• Hope for survival versus acceptance of death