Question

Select the correct answer.

Which phrase best describes the setting of this excerpt from Stephen Crane's "An Episode of War"?
The low white tents of the hospital were grouped around an old school-house. There was here a singular commotion. In the foreground two
ambulances interlocked wheels in the deep mud. The drivers were tossing the blame of it back and forth, gesticulating and berating, while from the
ambulances, both crammed with wounded, there came an occasional groan. An interminable crowd of bandaged men were coming and going. Great
numbers sat under the trees nursing heads or arms or legs. There was a dispute of some kind raging on the steps of the school-house. Sitting with his
back against a tree a man with a face as grey as a new army blanket was serenely smoking a com-cob pipe. The leutenant wished to rush forward
and inform him that he was dying.
O A. injured people flocking around a school
B.
a makeshift hospital without proper facilities
OC. a schoolhouse with a lot of children making a commotion
OD. wounded soldiers lying unattended on the battlefront
E.
people running to save the wounded soldiers trapped inside an ambulance

Answer 1

The setting of the excerpt is a makeshift hospital without proper facilities.

Step-by-step explanation:

The correct answer is B. The excerpt describes a makeshift hospital without proper facilities. The low white tents of the hospital are grouped around an old school-house, indicating the temporary nature of the setup. The ambulances being stuck in deep mud and the commotion of injured people coming and going further highlight the improvised setting of the hospital.

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