Question 1

What three languages are on the Rosetta Stone?

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Greek, Demotic, Hieroglyphics.

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Greek, Latin, Egyptian

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Hieroglyphics, French, English

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Egyptian, Martian, Greek

Question 2

Who could read hieroglyphics?

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Nobody could!

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Only the Pharaohs and rulers.

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Only Greeks.

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Only Egyptians who spoke Coptic.

Question 3

Horapollo was a Greek who understood many hieroglyphics.

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False

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True

Question 4

What did German priest Athanasius Kircher do to help with the deciphering of hieroglyphics?

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He wrote the first vocabulary and grammar of Coptic, an Egyptian language.

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He helped Champollion get a copy of the Rosetta Stone.

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He correctly solved the symbols for "mother" and "family."

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He dug up the Rosetta Stone.

Question 5

A fact is something that can be proven.

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True

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False

Question 6

Napoleon invaded Egypt and brought with him...

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scholars and scientists, along with soldiers.

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tanks and bazookas, along with soldiers.

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his favorite pets, along with soldiers.

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chefs and artists, along with soldiers.

Question 7

Next to the statues and the head, the slab seems unimpressive at first glance. It is roughly the size of a tabletop—three feet nine inches long, two feet four and a half inches wide, and eleven inches thick.

Which words in these sentences indicate an opinion?

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seems unimpressive

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at first glance

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roughly the size of

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eleven inches thick

Question 8

According to The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone, what causes the French scholars to become “tremendously excited” when they first glimpse the writing on the Rosetta Stone slab?

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It is the first time the French scholars have seen the Greek alphabet appear together with the hieroglyphs.

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It is the first time the French scholars have studied an inscription that consists of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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It is the first time the French scholars have received or studied anything as old as the Rosetta Stone.

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It is the first time the French scholars have glimpsed the writings they have heard about on the Rosetta Stone.

Question 9

Which sentence from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone most suggests that James Cross Giblin holds a positive view of the work of Thomas Young?

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However, he had laid a solid groundwork for others in their attempts to decipher the hieroglyphs.

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Young noticed that each time these demotic characters appeared, they were set off at both ends by lines like parentheses.

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At various times, Young studied the habits of spiders, the surface features of the moon, and diseases of the chest.

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Unable to make fresh progress in deciphering the demotic passage, Young turned his attention to the hieroglyphs on the Stone.

Question 10

After reading The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone, a student made this statement.

Thomas Young was clearly the most intelligent and determined researcher to try to decipher the writings on the Rosetta Stone.

This statement could be considered biased because it

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favors Thomas Young over other researchers.

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fails to mention any facts about Thomas Young.

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states two different facts about Thomas Young.

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views Thomas Young as an ordinary researcher.

Question 11

Based on The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone, what is one way in which Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young are alike?

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Both eventually came to believe that the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs represented sounds rather than things.

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Both studied with Sylvestre de Sacy and based much of their own research on his beliefs about the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs.

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Both became discouraged and almost gave up their attempts to decipher the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone.

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Both learned many different languages in their attempts to decipher the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone.

Question 12

Based on The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone, what is one way in which Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion differed?

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Young had money, while Champollion was very poor.

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Champollion had money, while Young was very poor.

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Young gave up on his research, while Champollion did not.

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Champollion gave up on his research, while Young did not.

Question 13

Read the excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin.

All his years of painstaking and often frustrating attempts at deciphering had been rewarded. "I am going to do it," he had said as a boy when the mathematician Fourier showed him a copy of the Rosetta Stone. Now he had succeeded.

Based on details in the excerpt, the reader can conclude that Champollion mostly felt about his accomplishment:

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a sense of pride.

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thankful to Fourier.

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envious of Fourier.

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a sense of frustration.

Question 14

Read this excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin.

The schooling of a scribe began at age five or six and was usually completed by age sixteen. Through long, hard hours of practice, the student learned to paint or carve more than six hundred different hieroglyphs. He also learned how to write in hieratic, a flowing form of hieroglyphic writing in which the individual symbols were joined.

Based on the context clues, a scribe can be defined as someone who

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writes

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cooks

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builds

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teaches

Question 15

When making an inference, readers

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combine information from a text with their own experiences.

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make a guess about a text based on personal opinions.

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prove a statement with facts gathered from research.

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look up the definition of a word in the dictionary.

Question 16

The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone has been completely solved.

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False

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True

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