Question: User: QUESTIONS & ANSWERS MIRROR STATE STANDARDIZED TESTS, SO YOU CAN PRACTICE TEST-TAKING SKILLS WHILE READING HISTORICALLY-BASED PASSAGES! • EXCERPT FROM THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE • SONG "WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME AGAIN" Name ______________________ CIVIL WAR PAIRED PASSAGES READING PRACTICE TEST This question has 2 parts. 1. Part A: Which is an attribute of the tall soldier in Passage 1? A. ungracious B. humorous C. prideful D. humble 2. Part B: Which quotation from Passage 1 supports your answer for Part A? A. “We’re goin’ I move ’I’mbr—” sure,” he said pompously to a group in the company” B. “Once a certain tall soldier developed virile and unruly ways and resolutely he was a shir” C. “The camp ﬂag had from a broad bearing his armety brarista” D. “Who had helped with a tree he had heard from a rebel‘ brother” 3. Which quotation highlights how the private feels about the tall soldier’s information in Passage 1? A. “He told mournfully down” B. “He drew a stud and disappeared ph” C. “It’s a lie! that’s all it is—a thunderin’ lie” D. “He had just put a costly board in his house” This next question has 2 parts. 4. Part A: Which quotation from Passage 2 might the speaker of Passage 1 agree with concerning his dreams of war? A. “The ladies they will all run out” B. “The flour which is ready now” C. “To fill the sky” D. “Let love and friendship on that day” 5. Part B: Which quotation from Passage 3 supports your answer to Part A? A. “give him hundreds of reasons why he was vastly more importance on the farm than on the field of battle” B. “His bull mind had drawn for him large pictures extravagantly in color, frail with breathless deeds” C. “must be some sort of play affair” D. “Men were better, or more kind” This next question has 2 parts. 6. Part A: What is the purpose of Passage 1? A. To illuminate how different soldiers react in wartime B. To showcase memories of battle C. To illustrate humorous foibles the young man is losing D. To relay biographical information about various military leaders 7. Part B: Which quotation from Passage 1 supports your response to Part A? A. “The Smoke from the fire of time neglected the clay chimney and swathes” B. “Fifty chimneys of city and strips made undulation treed to all above the w” C. “She could calmly set herself and with no apparent difficulty give him may” D. “Perhaps, as of wild, more important on the farm than on the field of battle"

1. The problem asks: Which is an attribute of the tall soldier in Passage 1? The options are A. ungracious, B. humorous, C. prideful, D. humble. 2. To answer this, we look for clues in Passage 1 that describe the tall soldier's character. 3. The quotation that supports the attribute should reflect the soldier's behavior or attitude. 4. Among the options, "he said pompously to a group in the company" suggests pride or arrogance. 5. "Pompously" means showing pride or self-importance, which aligns with the attribute "prideful". 6. Therefore, the attribute of the tall soldier is C. prideful. 7. The supporting quotation is A. “We’re goin’ I move ’I’mbr—” sure,” he said pompously to a group in the company”. Final answer: - Part A: C. prideful - Part B: A. “We’re goin’ I move ’I’mbr—” sure,” he said pompously to a group in the company”