Summarizing Central Ideas in The Dark Game, Part 1

Question 1

Which detail should be included in a summary of Elizabeth Van Lew’s role as a spymaster during the Civil War?

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She put a message inside an empty eggshell.

Question 2

A good summary of an informational text must

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state, in the student’s own words, only the most important ideas.

Question 3

best

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most . . . spies of the Civil War were amateurs

Question 4

Which excerpt best states the central idea of the second paragraph of The Dark Game?

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This matter of geography affected the spies who worked behind enemy lines.

Question 5

Read this paragraph from The Dark Game.Another thing that changed very little in the years between the wars was the means of obtaining military intelligence. Although the use of photography and the telegraph brought some technological advances, the craft of spying on the enemy's army still relied on fieldwork. For the most part, intelligence was gathered in simple ways. Prisoners of war and deserters were interrogated. The Union army was always interested in hearing what runaway slaves had to report. And, of course, both armies relied on cavalry scouts, signal intercepts, visual observation, and captured correspondence.

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Most espionage during the Civil War was fieldwork that included observation, scouting, and interrogation of prisoners.

Question 6

best

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It shares the detail that the war lasted four years.

Question 7

Read this paragraph from The Dark Game.To assure that the intelligence reached the commanders as quickly as possible—the postal services having become slow and unreliable—Van Lew created a system of couriers that moved the intelligence on its way without burdening one operative with the responsibility (and danger) of making the entire trip. She also created a credible cover story for each of her couriers, should they be stopped and questioned along the way.

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Van Lew used multiple messengers to get her information across.

Question 8

Trina is writing a summary of an article on global warming. To write a good summary, what should Trina do? Select four options.think about what the central ideas of the article areparaphrase the central ideas of the articlewrite the central ideas of the article in her own wordsmake the summary the same length as the articlecondense the central ideas into a shorter formuse sentences from the article without quotation marksinclude as many details from the article as she can

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think about what the central ideas of the article are; paraphrase the central ideas of the article; write the central ideas of the article in her own words; condense the central ideas into a shorter form

Question 9

Read this paragraph from The Dark Game.But Elizabeth wanted to do more than simply minister and comfort the wounded. A Unionist, believing in "one nation . . . indivisible," she needed to do more. When she learned of Virginia's secession from the Union in 1861, she felt, in the words of one historian, "profoundly betrayed." She believed that the secessionists did not represent the majority of the citizens of Virginia. She was compelled to act in any way she could to help repair a nation torn apa

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Elizabeth wanted to help put the nation back together.

Question 10

What is the central idea of the first paragraph of The Dark Game?

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The Civil War lasted longer than people at first expected it to last.

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