Worksheet Answer Key
Pre-intermediate level
Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories
AMBROSE BIERCE
A Before Reading
1
1
2
C
C
A
V
A
L
R
Y
M
5
N
F
O
A
N
4
P
N
6
3
R
Q
U
T
A
I
L
7
S
H
U
Z
Z
L
E
O
U
C
N
M
O
T
G
U
E
N
T
A
I
8
P
I
C
K
9
E
T
L
I
N
E
S
A
D
D
L
E
I
10
S
C
O
U
T
N
2 Student’s own answers.
B While Reading
3 Peyton Farquhar was a wealthy landowner trying to protect his home from the union army.
Mohun Dampier fell in love with a girl but died a lonely man.
Pauline and Eva Maynard had an evil guardian who wanted their money.
Hugh Morgan liked hunting but met a creature that was too powerful for him.
Private Jerome Searing was a scout and had a brother who fought with him in the army.
Ramon Gallegos, William Shaw and George Kent crossed the desert to find wealth in the goldfields of
California.
Barr Lassiter disagreed with his family and left to fight in the civil war.
Lieutenant Herman Brayle wanted to die bravely in war to save his reputation.
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Worksheet Answer Key
Pre-intermediate level
4
Story
Who died?
How did they die? Who killed them?
Why were they
killed?
Owl Creek Bridge
Peyton Farquhar
Hanged
Union Army
soldiers
Spying, sabotage
Beyond the Wall
Mohun Dampier
Not said
Not said
Fatal triad
An Adventure at
Brownville
Pauline and
Eva Maynard
Heart disease
and a fall
Richard Benning?
Money?
The Damned Thing
Hugh Morgan
Ripped apart
by claws
A wild beast
Not said
One of the Missing
Private Jerome
Searing
Crushed/loss of
blood
A confederate
captain
War/accident
The Stranger
Gallegos, Shaw
and Kent
Shot
Shot themselves
To avoid torture
and death by the
Apaches
Three and One
Are One
Barr Lassiter’s
mother, father and
sister
Cannon shell, fire
Yankee soldiers
War
Killed at Resaca
Herman Brayle
Gunshots
Confederate
soldiers
War
C After Reading
5 Student’s own answers.
6 Student’s own answers.
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