Read this paragraph 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. For the most part, intelligence was gathered in simple ways. Prisoners of war and deserters were interrogated. The Union army was always interested in hearing what runaway slaves had to report. And, of course, both armies relied on cavalry scouts, signal intercepts, visual observation, and captured correspondence.
Review this excerpt from "Lather and Nothing Else."I estimated he had a four-days’ growth of beard, the four days he had been gone on the last foray after our men. His face looked burnt, tanned by the sun.I started to work carefully on the shaving soap. I scraped some slices from the cake, dropped them into the mug, then added a little lukewarm water, and stirred with the brush. The lather soon began to rise."The fellows in the troop must have just about asmuch beard as I.” I went on stirring up lather.
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Imagery appeals to which of these? Select five responses.
Which detail should be included in a summary of Elizabeth Van Lew’s role as a spymaster during the Civil War?
Read the line from "Annabel Lee.”Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
Read the passage from "Annabel Lee.”And this was the reason that, long ago,In this kingdom by the sea,A wind blew out of a cloud, chillingMy beautiful Annabel Lee;So that her highborn kinsmen cameAnd bore her away from me,To shut her up in a sepulchreIn this kingdom by the sea.
Which excerpt from Annabel Lee provides the best evidence to support the conclusion that Annabel Lee was loyal?
Which excerpt from "The Enigma Machine” supports the idea that Allied forces expected the Germans to complicate their coding system?
Read the excerpt from "The Enigma Machine.”At Bletchley Park, the main site in Britain where Enigma codes were deciphered, six thousand messages were decoded every day by a staff of ten thousand men and women. Many of the messages were inconsequential, but more than a few were critical to the outcome of the war.
Which best describes the author’s viewpoint about the people who learned to decipher the Enigma in "The Enigma Machine”?
Read the excerpt from "The Rosetta Stone.”Egyptian scripts were replaced with Coptic, which included six demotic characters. In the ninth century, Arab scholar Abu Bakr Ahmad Ibn-Wahshiyah was able to partly decipher the hieroglyphs by comparing them to Coptic. But in the eleventh century, it too was replaced, by Arabic. The link was once again severed. For centuries, Western scholars tried to decipher the hieroglyphs, with little success. They were working under a false hypothesis, that the hieroglyphs were pictograms, with each symbol representing an object or an idea.
Which best describes the author’s viewpoint toward the actual Rosetta Stone in "The Rosetta Stone”?
What is one key difference between "The Quinceanera" and "The Smithville Gazette: Neighborhood Thief Strikes Again"?
Read the passage from "The Quinceanera.”The next thing I knew, the alarm on my phone rang, startling me out of a daze. It was 12:30, time for me to leave! In a rush of misery I realized I had to make a choice: get my sister’s gift or make it to my movie on time. A quick look at the jewelry reminded me that there wasn’t anything here I thought she’d like anyhow. But I had to get her something! And then it hit me. My sister liked movies – I could get her movie tickets at the theatre, or a gift certificate she could use whenever she wanted!
Read the passage from "The Quinceanera.”So there I was at the jewelry counter in Ferguson’s department store, surrounded by stroller-driving moms and crying babies. I had to hurry. Maritza’s party was tonight and, more importantly, I was meeting my friends at the movies at 1:00. It would be the only part of the day I would actually get to enjoy, and I was really looking forward to it.
Read the passage from "Racing the Storm.”Behind them, black clouds brewed, bearing down on them at a breakneck speed.
Read the passage from "Racing the Storm.”Anastasia shook her head in wonder. "You’re so lucky you have your license,” she said. "I wish I had been the one driving.”
In "Racing the Storm,” which character is a foil to Keri?
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