Read the excerpt from "Clara Barton’s Childhood.” When playing with cousins, running from feisty livestock, or taking part in anything that didn’t involve conversation, Clara was a champion. But her most marked characteristic around others, then and for many years afterward, was her excessive shyness. Rather than conversing, Clara turned her attention to out-of-door matters and found more than one opportunity for daring feats. First, with shining eyes and bated breath, she learned to cross the little winding French river on teetering logs at its most dangerous depths. When this sport grew tame, she made her way to the local sawmill where she delighted to ride the carriage which conveyed the logs to the old-fashioned up-and-down saw. The carriage moved very slowly when it was going forward and the saw was eating its laborious way through the log, but it came back with violent rapidity. Now, that little girl, who remembered nothing but fear of her earliest childhood, was happy when she flaunted her courage in the face of her natural timidity riding the sawmill carriage. Why did the author choose to provide this fictional account of Clara Barton, who was a real person? Select four answers. 1.to interpret and share real events 2.to bring Barton to life through descriptive detail and dialogue 3.to make the account of Barton’s life more interesting than it actually was 4.to add details, such as characters’ thoughts and feelings, 5.to the story since some of these details are not known to engage the reader by sharing a point of view about the topic
