Clara barton is well known for her endeavors as a nurse on the battlefield during the civil war and for her role in founding the american red cross. She is perhaps not as well known, however, for her role in establishing a bureau for tracing missing soldiers following the civil war.At the close of the civil war, the united states did not have in place any agency responsible for accounting for what had happened to the innumerable men who had served in the military during the war, and many families had no idea as to the fate of their loved ones. Families were forced to agonize endlessly over where their loved ones were, what kind of shape they were in, whether or not they would return, and what had happenedto them.

Clara barton developed a system for using print media to publish the names of soldiers known to have been wounded or killed during various battles of the civil war. She was prepared to publish names that she herself had gathered on the battlefield as well as information gathered from others. She made numerous unsuccessfull attempts to interest various government officials in her plan. However, it was not until henry wilson, a senator from the state of massachusetts, took up her cause and presented her plan to president lincoln that her plan was implemented.

With lincoln’s assistance, clara barton was set up in a small government office with funding for a few clerks and the authority to examine military records. She and her clarks gathered and complied information from military records and battlefield witnesses and published it in newspaper and magazines. Clara barton operated this missing persons bureau for four years, from the end of the war in 1865 until 1869. During this period, she and her staff put out more than 100,00 printed lists, answered more than 60,000 letters, and accounted for more than 20,000 missing soldiers.

QUESTION:
2. The purpose of this passage is.......
answer choices
(A) To praise clara barton’s work as a battlefiel nurse
(B) To outline clara barton’s role in establishing the american red cross
(C) To malign the role of the U.S. geverenmentat the end of the civil war
(D) To present one of clara barton’s lesser-known accomplishments
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3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of clara barton’s accomplishments?
answer choices
(A) That she treated wounded civil war soldiers
(B) Taht she was integral to the establishment of the american red cross
(C) That she served as an elected government official
(D) That she continiued to work for he good of soldiers and their families after the civil war
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4.The word “close” in paragraph 2 could best be replaced by.....
answer choices
(A) Near
(B) Battle
(C) End
(D) Shut
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5.What is stated in the passage about the issue of missing persons following the civil war?
answer choices
(A) The U.S. goverenment was not officially prepared to deal whith the issue.
(B) President lincoln did not recognize that there was an issue.
(C) One U.S. goverenment agency was responsible for the issue.
(D) U.S. citizens were unaware of the issue.
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6. It can be inferred from the passage that the budget for barton’s missing persons agency was.....
answer choices
(A) Quite lavish
(B) Open-ended
(C) Limited in scope
(D) From private sources
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7. The pronoun “it” in paragraph 4 refers to......
answer choices
(A) Funding
(B) Authority
(C) Information
(D) Bureau
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8. Which of the following did clara barton and her staff accomplish, according to the passage?
answer choices
(A) They searched military records.
(B) They responded to 100,000 letters.
(C) They printed a list with 100,000 names.
(D) They talked with 20,000 missing soldiers
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29. Where in the passage does the author indicate the duration of the existence of clara barton’s missing person agency?
answer choices
(A) Paragraph 2
(B) Paragraph 1
(C) Paragraph 4
(D) Paragraph 3
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9.Which paragraph describes clara barton’s efforts to establish a missing persons bureau?
answer choices
(A) The first paragraph
(B) The second paragraph
(C) The third paragraph
(D) The last paragraph
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