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To evaluate the text structures used by the author, which questions should a reader ask? Select 3 options.What opinions are conveyed within the text?What important ideas does the text include?What text structures does the author use?How effective is the text structure in sharing the important ideas?How has the author supported the main ideas in the text?

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What opinions are conveyed within the text?
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What important ideas does the text include?
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What text structures does the author use?
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How effective is the text structure in sharing the important ideas?
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How has the author supported the main ideas in the text?
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A central idea in The Code Book is the concern that much of the world’s information is not secure. Which lines from the passage best support this central idea? Check all that apply.it could be that the laws of mathematics forbid the existence of a significant shortcut only a small fraction of the information flowing around the world is securely encryptedcompanies are already supplying shielding material that can be used to line the walls of a room few of these people take adequate precautions in terms of privacylaw enforcers and anybody else with a curious mind can get their hands on more information

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it could be that the laws of mathematics forbid the existence of a significant shortcut
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only a small fraction of the information flowing around the world is securely encrypted
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companies are already supplying shielding material that can be used to line the walls of a room
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few of these people take adequate precautions in terms of privacy
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law enforcers and anybody else with a curious mind can get their hands on more information
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Read the excerpt from The Dark Game.As a result of the cut cables, Germany lost its most secure long-distance communications system. The Germans now had to rely on radio transmissions from their powerful wireless station at Nauen, a few miles from Berlin. Which was exactly what the British military knew they would have to do. And once the Germans began sending wireless messages, MI8, the British code breakers, began plucking them from the air. Of course, all German correspondence was sent in a complicated cipher system, so that was when the hard work began for the code breakers of MI8.

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The Germans now had to rely on radio transmissions from their powerful wireless station at Nauen, a few miles from Berlin.
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Which was exactly what the British military knew they would have to do.
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And once the Germans began sending wireless messages, MI8, the British code breakers, began plucking them from the air.
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Of course, all German correspondence was sent in a complicated cipher system, so that was when the hard work began for the code breakers of MI8.
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Read the excerpt from The Dark Game.British government leaders didn't present the Zimmermann telegram to Wilson for a few weeks. Hall reminded them that outrage was growing in America over Germany's announcement late in the day of January 31 that the German navy would resume unrestricted submarine warfare. In fact, that policy provoked the U.S. government to cut diplomatic relations with Germany in February.

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Hall wanted to let the American outrage simmer down before revealing the contents of the telegraph.
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Hall knew that growing outrage among the American public would help Britain’s cause.
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Hall worried that the American public would lose interest in the contents of the telegraph.
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Hall disagreed with the British government’s choice to wait before showing the telegraph to Wilson.
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The roman numerals in the Social Media Policy for Widget Corp. are there to

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help the reader understand the importance of using social media as an employee.
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organize the major subsections of the company’s social media rules for employees.
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organize each step of the procedure for using social media as an employee.
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help the reader understand why using social media is prohibited for employees.
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Read the excerpt from The Dark Game.On January 16, 1917, in a clear attempt to convince the Mexican government to help Germany in the war, Arthur Zimmermann, the German foreign secretary, sent a telegram to Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador in Washington. The foreign secretary wanted to be certain that this message reached von Bernstorff, so he made arrangements for it to be carried aboard a U-boat to Sweden and from there to Washington through diplomatic channels.

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Because Arthur Zimmermann rarely sent telegrams to von Bernstorff, the contents of the message had to be very important.
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Because the message was so important and needed to reach von Bernstorff, Zimmermann wanted the message to be carried across the ocean in a U-boat.
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The telegram’s destination, Washington, D.C., suggests that the contents of the telegram were important to the Germans and the British.
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The route the telegram was to take, first to Sweden and then to Washington, D.C., supports the idea that the contents of the message were important.
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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.

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At Bletchley Park, thousands of people worked hard to help the British and Allied troops during the war.
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At Bletchley Park, the ten thousand people on the staff figured out over six thousand codes, some of which were very important to the war effort.
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Ten thousand people worked at Bletchley Park, but some of the codes they solved were inconsequential to the war effort.
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Six thousand codes were figured out at Bletchley Park, including some that had importance in regard to the war.
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Which excerpt from "The Enigma Machine” supports the idea that Allied forces expected the Germans to complicate their coding system?

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The Enigma machine was invented at the end of World War I by German engineer Arthur Scherbius. He used rotors and an electrical pathway in his design.
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The telegram was intercepted and deciphered by British intelligence, and it caused such outrage in the US that it helped generate public support for the United States’ entry into the war.
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After 1938, when the Germans introduced additional rotors and plugs to increase the number of possible combinations, Polish and British cryptologists had already developed alternative methods of recovering the daily keys.
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The two main weaknesses of the Enigma machine were careless operators and the distribution of the daily key. The daily key was printed on paper, and it had the potential of being captured en route to the field.
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Which best describes the author’s viewpoint about the people who learned to decipher the Enigma in "The Enigma Machine”?

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They deserved more recognition for their service than they got.
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They played a very significant role in helping Allied forces.
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They should not have tricked the Germans by sending false codes.
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They were not as important as the soldiers on the battlefield.
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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.

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After Coptic became the prominent script, it was replaced by Arabic, which resulted in breaking society’s connection to ancient times.
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For many centuries, people who spoke a variety of different languages tried to figure out the meaning of hieroglyphs.
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Hieroglyphs are letters, not symbols representing a whole idea, which many scholars throughout history were not aware of.
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For a long time, scholars from different places tried to figure out the meaning of hieroglyphs, but they mistakenly believed each hieroglyph was a symbol.
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Which best describes the author’s viewpoint toward the actual Rosetta Stone in "The Rosetta Stone”?

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It is a fascinating artifact that can help people better understand the past.
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It is a historical artifact that scholars spent too much time trying to understand.
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It is something that is interesting to learn about, but it is not historically significant.
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It is a piece of history that has an exciting and entertaining story.

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