Comparing Accounts of Clara Barton’s Story — Quiz Answers

Look at the frame from One War Ends, Another Begins . Open image in full-screen view Read the excerpt from the A Story of the Red Cross. The conditions were so new to them that it was a relief to meet persons who had seen such things before. We were asked not only to act with them, but to assume charge of the administration of relief. This, of course, we would not do, but that we would meet with, counsel, and aid them in every way in our power, is needless to affirm. That we did do this, through every day of our stay of three months, not only our own conviction, but the unasked and unexpected testimony of both Galveston and the Legislature of the State of Texas, go to assure. Which statement best describes a difference between the frame and the excerpt?

This question has two parts. First, answer Part 1. Then, answer Part 2. Part 1 What impact does the use of the first-person perspective have in the passage from A Story of the Red Cross ?

Part 2 Which quotation best supports the correct answer to Part 1?

Look at the frames from One War Ends, Another Begins . Open image in full-screen view Read the excerpt from A Story of the Red Cross . Yet these men, to the number of thirty or more, had, as one may say, pulled themselves together, and were even at that early date a relief committee, holding their meetings at the wrecked and half-ruined hotel, almost the only public house left standing. To this hotel we also went and reported to the committee. To say that we were kindly and gratefully received by them says nothing that would satisfy either ourselves or them. Which statement best describes a similarity in purpose between the frames and excerpt?

Look at the frame from One War Ends, Another Begins. Open image in full-screen view Which excerpt from A Story of the Red Cross reflects what is happening in this frame?

Look at the frame from One War Ends, Another Begins . Open image in full-screen view Read the excerpt from A Story of the Red Cross . My stenographer, Miss Agnes Coombs, found her post by me, and sixty to eighty letters a day, taken from dictation, made up the clerical round of the office of the president. This duty fell in between attending the daily meetings of the relief committee and receiving constant calls both in and out of the city. Which statement describes how the purpose of the frame and the excerpt are different?

Read the excerpt from A Story of the Red Cross . This time there was no murmur in the air, no warning of approaching danger. Even the watchful press, that knows so much before it ever happens, slumbered quiet and deep, till the hissing wires shrieked the terrifying word—Galveston Then we learned that, as at Port Royal, the sea had overleaped its bounds and its victims by thousands were in its grasp. In all the land no one slept then. To us it was the clang of the fire-bell, and the drop of the harness. The Red Cross clans commenced to gather. Why does the author most likely include this description?

Which detail from A Story of the Red Cross shows Clara’s purpose for writing it?

In A Story of the Red Cross , why does the author provide a first-hand account of the work in Galveston?

Look at the frame from One War Ends, Another Begins. Open image in full-screen view Which excerpt from A Story of the Red Cross best reflects what is occurring in this frame?

Jing is writing a book about her experience playing soccer as a child. She wants to utilize both her writing and illustration skills. Which form should Jing use to tell her story?