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Making Predictions in a Mystery: "Object Lesson" — Unit test Answers

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Which evidence from "The Rosetta Stone” supports the claim that Thomas Young played a key role in helping to decipher the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone?

A
Unfortunately, Young abandoned his research, believing that the letters in the cartouche were just an exception . . .
B
Young used an old code breaker's technique of looking for a crib, or a word that can be identified in the text.
C
Champollion deciphered the cartouche by identifying hieroglyphs translated by Young, and he used his knowledge of Coptic to discover that it belonged to the pharaoh Ramses.
D
Young's results were published and fell into the hands of a talented linguist, Jean-Francois Champollion.
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Which questions would improve the reader’s ability to understand the military leaders’ fear that the code would no longer be effective? Select 2 options.

A
How many people spoke Navajo before World War I?
B
Was the US government able to figure out other countries’ codes?
C
Why did the Navajos try to prevent outsiders from learning their language?
D
Did any of the Japanese or German students learn to speak Navajo?
E
What kind of code did the American Indians use during World War I?
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Read the excerpt from "Code Talkers.”The use of Navajo code was so successful that its existence was kept secret until 1968 so that the Marines could continue to use it, if necessary. Two decades later, many of the code talkers were recognized for their service. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan declared August 14 Navajo Code Talkers Day, and in 2000 President Bill Clinton awarded the Congressional Medal to the first twenty-nine code talkers. In the years since, code talkers from the Navajo and thirty-two other American Indian tribes have been awarded the medal.

A
entertain readers with a story about how code talkers received medals for their service during wartime.
B
inform readers that the code talkers were recognized by the US government for their critical work during wartime.
C
educate readers about the history of US presidents and holidays created to honor groups like the code talkers.
D
persuade readers that they should learn to create code so they can be recognized by the US government.

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