Reasoning and Logic in The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone

Question 5 • DAEP-English 7 A(20 Day Term)

Based on The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone, what is one way in which Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young are alike?

Answer

Both became discouraged and almost gave up their attempts to decipher the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone.

Both learned many different languages in their attempts to decipher the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone.

Both eventually came to believe that the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs represented sounds rather than things.

Both studied with Sylvestre de Sacy and based much of their own research on his beliefs about the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs.

Explanation

Both scholars came to see that at least some hieroglyphs stood for sounds, not just for objects or ideas. Young identified sound-based signs in royal names, and Champollion later showed that hieroglyphs used sounds as part of a broader writing system. So their shared insight is described in choice C.

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