The details in the passage suggest that the narrator is C. an adult describing a recent incident. The narrator reflects on the impact of the Civil War on their community and describes a sense of loss and emptiness in their home, indicating maturity and experience rather than the perspective of a child or a specific elderly person. Additionally, the narrator's observations and feelings are more aligned with those of an adult processing the changes in their life due to the war.
Passage A
The narrator of this passage describes the early days of the U.S. Civil War.
Our friends and neighbors have left us. Everything is broken up. The Theological Seminary is closed; the High School dismissed. Scarcely anyone is left of the many families that surround us. The homes all look desolate, yet this beautiful country is looking more peaceful and lovelier than ever, as if to rebuke the tumult of passion and the fanaticism of man. We are left lonely indeed. Our children are all gone: the girls to Clarke, where they may be safer, and farther from the exciting scenes which may too surround us; and the boys, the dear, dear boys, to the camp, to be drilled and prepared to meet any emergency.
Can it be that our country is to be carried on and on to the horrors of civil war? I shut my eyes and hold my breath when the thoughts of what may come upon us obtrudes itself; yet I cannot believe it. I know the breach will be healed without the effusion of blood. The taking of Fort Sumter without bloodshed has somewhat soothed my fears, though I am told by those who are wiser than I that men must fall on both sides by the score, by the hundred, and even by the thousand. But it is not my habit to look on the dark side, so I try hard to employ myself, and hope for the best.
Today our house seems so deserted that I feel more sad than usual, for on this morning we took leave of our whole household. I go from room to room, looking at first one thing and then another, so full of sad associations. The closed piano, the locked bookcase, the nicely arranged tables, the formally placed chairs, ottomans and sofas in the parlor! Oh, for someone to put them out of order!
I heard distinctly the drums beating in Washington. The evening was so still that I seemed to hear nothing else.
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Question 6
6.
Details in the passage suggest that the narrator is
Aa child describing a recent incidentBan elderly person recalling her youthCan adult describing a recent incidentDa woman writing to her neighbor
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