1. Civil War/Exploration Literature American Literature

2. 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”

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

4. Vocab 100 This verb means “to explain or tell”

5. Vocab 100 Apprise Home

6. 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.”

7. Vocab 200 Behavior (etiquette) and courtesy (deference)

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

9. Vocab 300 Oppress

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

11. Vocab 400 Holy/Sacred

12. Vocab 500 This adjective means “indescribable or overwhelming”

13. Vocab 500 Ineffable

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

15. Vocab 600 TINY HUMANS

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

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

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

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

20. 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.

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

22. 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.

23. Owl Creek 400 Farquhar dies of hanging.

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

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

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

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

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

29. Non-Fiction 100 A diary

30. 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?

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

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

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

34. 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”?

35. Non-Fiction 400 The signing of the Declaration of Independence

36. 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 _______?

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

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

39. Non-Fiction 600 Preserving the United States

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

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

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

43. “Frog” 200 He wants to trick him into betting

44. “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?

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

46. “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.”

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

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

49. “Fire” 100 Man versus Nature

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

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

52. “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”?

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

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

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

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

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

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

59. “Fire” 600 Hope for survival versus acceptance of death