A.I. Explanation:

Correct Answer: B

Passage Reference: In April 1915, at the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium, he spent 17 days treating the wounded and operating on Canadian and Allied soldiers.

Why this is correct: The second paragraph says that at the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium he spent 17 days treating the wounded. Seventeen days is more than two weeks, and the wounded are injured soldiers.

Tips: Two paragraphs talk about his medical work in the war. Look for the one that names Belgium and a number of days.

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: The first paragraph covers his studies, his internship in Baltimore and his work in Montreal before the war, not any battle.
• C: Paragraph C is about how the poem was published and used. It does not describe his medical work at Ypres.
• D: Notice that paragraph D mentions a hospital, but it is in France and the paragraph gives no battle or number of days.
• E: The second paragraph gives exactly this: 17 days of treating the wounded at Ypres, in Belgium, in April 1915.

Correct Answer: E

Passage Reference: Exhausted and grieving, McCrae wrote In Flanders Fields during a short rest.

Why this is correct: Paragraph B tells us he wrote the poem during a short rest, after his friend was killed. It does not say that he read it to anyone or shared it that day.

Tips: Writing a poem and reading it to others are two different actions. Check whether the passage mentions the second one.

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: The first paragraph says he wrote poetry as a high school student, but it says nothing about this poem or other soldiers.
• B: Notice that paragraph B describes the moment he wrote the poem, but it stops there. Nobody else reads it in this paragraph.
• C: Paragraph C starts with the poem in Punch in December 1915, months later, and does not mention the day it was written.
• D: The fourth paragraph moves on to his hospital work in France and how the poem is read today. It is not about the moment it was written.

Correct Answer: A

Passage Reference: The following year he worked briefly as an intern under William Osler at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, in the United States.

Why this is correct: The first paragraph says he earned his medical degree in 1898. The following year he worked briefly as an intern at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, in the United States. "Briefly" means for a short time.

Tips: Find the paragraph about his training, then look for the word 'briefly' and an American city.

Why the other options are wrong:

• B: The second paragraph is about his army posts and the battle at Ypres. It does not mention any hospital in the United States.
• C: The third paragraph names the United States only as one country that uses the poppy, not as a place where he worked.
• D: The fourth paragraph describes a Canadian army hospital in France during the war, not a hospital in an American city.
• E: Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where he was briefly an intern, is named in Paragraph A.

Correct Answer: C

Passage Reference: Its angry third verse was used widely to support the war effort: to recruit soldiers, to raise money, to comfort widows, and to attack pacifists and people who made large profits from the war.

Why this is correct: Notice that paragraph C says the poem's third verse was used to support the war effort, including to recruit soldiers. Recruiting soldiers means persuading men to join the army.

Tips: McCrae joining the army is not the same as the poem bringing in others. Look for a list of ways the poem was used.

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: The first paragraph mentions his early poetry and his university studies, but nothing about the army.
• B: The second paragraph tells us that McCrae himself enlisted. It does not say his poem was used to bring other men in.
• D: Paragraph D says how people read the poem today, on Remembrance Day. It does not say how it was used in wartime to bring in soldiers.
• E: Recruiting soldiers is one of the wartime uses of the third verse that Paragraph C lists.

Correct Answer: D

Passage Reference: In January 1918 he was appointed consulting physician to the First British Army, the first Canadian given that post, and he died of pneumonia later that month.

Why this is correct: The fourth paragraph says that in January 1918 he was appointed consulting physician to the First British Army. He was the first Canadian given that post. A consulting physician is a senior doctor who gives advice.

Tips: Notice that paragraph B also gives him a medical post in the army. Look for the words "first Canadian" and "British."

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: Look at paragraph A: it says he was a physician in Montreal and taught at McGill, but it gives no army appointment.
• B: The second paragraph says he was a brigade surgeon in a Canadian artillery brigade. That is a different post from the British one.
• C: Look at paragraph C: it names Britain only as a country that adopted the poppy. It gives McCrae no job there.
• E: The appointment to the First British Army, and the fact that no Canadian had held it before, both appear in Paragraph D.

Correct Answer: E

Passage Reference: On May 2 his close friend Alexis Helmer was killed and buried under a simple wooden cross.

Why this is correct: The second paragraph says his friend was buried under a simple wooden cross and that McCrae then wrote the poem. It never says why he chose any image in it, and it does not say he saw flowers near the grave.

Tips: The grave is described in Paragraph B. Ask whether any paragraph explains why he chose the flowers in the poem.

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: The first paragraph covers his studies and his work as a doctor before the war. No grave or flowers appear.
• B: Look at paragraph B: it describes the wooden cross on his friend's grave, but nothing about flowers growing there or his reasons.
• C: Notice that paragraph C says the poem helped make the poppy a flower of remembrance, but not why he wrote about it.
• D: Notice that paragraph D is about his last months in France and today's readers. The reason for his word choice is missing.

Correct Answer: A

Passage Reference: In 1912 he co-wrote a textbook of pathology for medical students.

Why this is correct: The first paragraph says that in 1912 he co-wrote a textbook of pathology for medical students. Co-writing a book means helping to write it, and medical students are people studying medicine.

Tips: Writing appears in several paragraphs. Look for 'textbook', not 'poem'.

Why the other options are wrong:

• B: Look at paragraph B: it says he wrote a poem at Ypres, but a poem is not a book for medical students.
• C: Notice that paragraph C is about his poem being printed in a magazine, not about a textbook.
• D: The fourth paragraph describes his medical work in France and how the poem is read now, with no mention of a textbook.
• E: The 1912 pathology textbook that he co-wrote for medical students is in Paragraph A.

Correct Answer: D

Passage Reference: The house in Guelph where he was born is now a museum, McCrae House.

Why this is correct: Look at paragraph D: it says the house in Guelph where he was born is now a museum called McCrae House. The first sentence of Paragraph A gives his birthplace as Guelph, Ontario, so the museum is his Ontario birthplace.

Tips: Guelph is named twice in the passage. Check each time to see which one talks about a museum.

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: Notice that paragraph A gives Guelph as his place of birth, but it does not say what happened to the house.
• B: The second paragraph is about the war and his friend's grave, not about any building in Canada.
• C: Notice that paragraph C talks about remembrance and the poppy, but it does not mention a museum.
• E: McCrae House, the museum in the Guelph house where he was born, is named in Paragraph D.

Correct Answer: C

Passage Reference: Partly because of the poem, the poppy became the flower of remembrance for the war dead in Canada, Britain, France, the United States and other countries.

Why this is correct: The third paragraph says that partly because of the poem, the poppy became the flower of remembrance for the war dead. So the poem helped the poppy become a sign of respect for fallen soldiers.

Tips: Remembrance Day and the poppy are different clues. Find the sentence that explains why a flower was chosen.

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: Notice that paragraph A describes his education and his early interest in poetry. There is nothing about flowers or remembrance.
• B: Look at paragraph B: it mentions the wooden cross on his friend's grave, but not the poppy.
• D: The fourth paragraph says the poem is read each Remembrance Day, but it does not explain how any flower became a symbol.
• E: Look at paragraph C: it says the poem was part of the reason the poppy became the flower of remembrance.