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Read the excerpt from The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles.Yet, by the time Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox, Virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than American battle deaths in all other wars from the Revolution through the Vietnam War.

A
to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts
B
to persuade readers of the seriousness of the American Civil War
C
to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle
D
to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in Appomattox, Virginia
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publication datecentral ideaparts of speechauthor’s background

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publication date
B
central idea
C
parts of speech
D
author’s background
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Central ideas are the most ideas in a text.

Answer:

important

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Read the excerpt from The Code Book.A theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding Alice's private key.

t
true.
l
likely.
u
unproven.
u
unbelievable.
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Look at this excerpt from a manual for SunFun Inc. Which text feature is used in this document?

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a
a bulleted list
b
bolded text
s
subheadings
a
a roman numeral
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Read this paragraph from The Dark Game.When the war began, Elizabeth Van Lew was considered a southern "spinster." She was in her early forties and unmarried. What could she do, she wondered, to serve her country? The answer came to her when she recalled her father's aunt Letitia telling her how she had ministered to the captured troops of the Continental army during the American Revolution, especially those who had been wounded in action.

E
Elizabeth Van Lew was an unmarried woman in her forties who wanted to serve her country but did not know how.
E
Elizabeth Van Lew asked herself what she wanted to do to help the Northern cause during the Civil War.
E
Elizabeth Van Lew was called a spinster in the South during the time of the Civil War because she had been unmarried for such a long time.
E
Elizabeth Van Lew wanted to help during the Civil War and drew inspiration from a relative who had taken care of wounded Revolutionary soldiers.
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opinionsideasevidencedescriptions

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opinions
B
ideas
C
evidence
D
descriptions
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Read this paragraph from The Dark Game.It may seem surprising that no Confederate sympathizers took action against Van Lew, given her strong and public views on secession and slavery. Surely there were suspicions, especially among her upper-crust neighbors, but the matter never went beyond those suspicions. Historians have suggested that the secessionists were victims of their own cultural bias, believing that no aristocratic person, and certainly not a lady, would ever consider taking part in a

E
Elizabeth Van Lew did not follow the rules society set forth for ladies of her time and social class.
E
Elizabeth Van Lew was a successful spy because society did not expect a lady to serve in that role.
E
Elizabeth Van Lew was able to disguise her spying activities because she kept her views about the war to herself.
E
Elizabeth Van Lew created for herself an untrue but believable cover story: she was a wealthy lady living in a fancy neighborhood.
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Peter is writing about this excerpt from The Code Book.A variation on the Trojan horse is a brand-new piece of encryption software that seems secure, but which actually contains a backdoor, something that allows its designers to decrypt everybody's messages. In 1998, a report by Wayne Madsen revealed that the Swiss cryptographic company Crypto AG had built backdoors into some of its products, and had provided the U.S. Government with details of how to exploit these backdoors. As a result, Americ

H
Hidden messages can be shared through a backdoor in encryption software. It reminds me of the way I leave my kitchen door open so the cat can come in.
H
Hidden messages can be shared through a backdoor in encryption software. The author gives an example of this software helping the government.
A
A Trojan horse is a type of encryption software, but as the author explains, it is not always 100 percent secure.
A
A Trojan horse is a type of encryption software, which reminds me of Greek mythology.
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Read this excerpt from The Dark Game.Another thing that changed very little in the years between the wars was the means of obtaining military intelligence. Although the use of photography and the telegraph brought some technological advances, the craft of spying on the enemy's army still relied on fieldwork.

b
by enhancing the reader’s understanding of which technological advances were used during fieldwork
b
by changing the reader’s perceptions about how fieldwork could help the Union cause
b
by including more detailed information about who did fieldwork for the Union and how it was done
b
by adding complexity to the topic by raising the moral issues involved in fieldwork and other espionage
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Read a student’s reaction to a nonfiction article.Summary:I read an article by Alfred Jenson about oil spills. Jenson has crossed the Arctic Ocean many times on vessels designed for exploration and research. He believes oil spills can be prevented with stricter international regulations governing oil transport.Controlling Idea:The controlling idea of Jenson’s article is that many oil spills have occurred in recent years in the Arctic Ocean.

A
Jenson’s viewpoint
B
expert testimony
C
Arctic Ocean statistics
D
specific dates
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Why are some words and phrases bolded in the Social Media Policy for Widget Corp document?

t
to explain what a section is mainly about
t
to highlight every detail of the document
t
to show the steps of a specific procedure
t
to organize key concepts in the document
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Which pieces of textual evidence support the inference that the codebook was of high importance? Select 2 options.

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On several occasions Room 40 received an unexpected but welcome gift when a German codebook was recovered after a sea battle and presented to the British code breakers.
O
One such gift was a codebook from the German ship Magdeburg, a light cruiser that ran aground on an island off of Finland.
W
When Russian ships quickly bore down on the cruiser, the captain of the stranded ship immediately did what all naval officers were taught to do: he ordered his signalman to bring him the ship's codebook so he could throw the book, wrapped in lead covers, into the sea.
B
But before the signalman could deliver the book to his captain, he was killed by Russian guns.
W
When the Russians recovered his body, the sailor was still clutching the codebook in his arms.
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Look at this workplace document.

Question illustration
A
to explain by order of importance how to maintain workplace safety
B
to explain the specific procedure for maintaining workplace safety
C
to explain in point-by-point form how to maintain workplace safety
D
to explain in step-by-step form how to maintain workplace safety
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Read the excerpt from The Dark Game.As Montgomery and de Grey slowly made their way through the message, they noticed more and more oddities. For example, 97556 appeared near the end of the message; the 90000 family indicated important names that were not used very often in messages. We can imagine their shock when they realized that 97556 stood for Zimmermann. That single name fired the men with excitement as they began working on the message from the beginning.

T
The inference is supported by the fact that the men had to work very slowly to decipher the complicated message.
T
The inference is supported by the complicated codes that were used by the Germans to convey their messages across the Atlantic during the war.
T
The inference is supported by the fact that two men were involved in the deciphering of the message.
T
The inference is supported by the excitement the men feel when they discover that the message was sent by Zimmermann, the German foreign secretary.

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