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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

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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.
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Hidden messages can be shared through a backdoor in encryption software. The author gives an example of this software helping the government.
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A Trojan horse is a type of encryption software, but as the author explains, it is not always 100 percent secure.
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A Trojan horse is a type of encryption software, which reminds me of Greek mythology.
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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.
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One such gift was a codebook from the German ship Magdeburg, a light cruiser that ran aground on an island off of Finland.
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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.
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But before the signalman could deliver the book to his captain, he was killed by Russian guns.
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When the Russians recovered his body, the sailor was still clutching the codebook in his arms.
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Which phrases include sensory language? Select three answers.the breeze last nightthe softly drifting snowthe bumpy, twisted treethe newly bought carthe rabbit next doorthe scarred, stained rug

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the breeze last night
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the softly drifting snow
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the bumpy, twisted tree
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the newly bought car
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the rabbit next door
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the scarred, stained rug
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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.

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by enhancing the reader’s understanding of which technological advances were used during fieldwork
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by changing the reader’s perceptions about how fieldwork could help the Union cause
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by including more detailed information about who did fieldwork for the Union and how it was done
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by adding complexity to the topic by raising the moral issues involved in fieldwork and other espionage
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She needs to add to the beginning and introduce what her challenge was.
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She needs to add to the beginning and introduce the important people involved.
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She needs to add to the middle and provide some of the obstacles she faced.
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She needs to add to the end and provide some reflection on the challenge.
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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.

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to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts
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to persuade readers of the seriousness of the American Civil War
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to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle
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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
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central idea
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parts of speech
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author’s background
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Read the passage from Perseus."Your child!” Acrisius cried in great anger. "Who is his father?”But when Danaë answered proudly, "Zeus,” he would not believe her.

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identify the narrator of the story.
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illustrate the feelings of the characters.
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describe the actions of the characters.
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identify the narrator’s point of view.

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