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- 1. Multiple Choice
How does the author support the idea that the Navajo men who volunteered to fight in World War II had been living isolated lives? 1. Part A
by stating that their messages were impossible to understand
by stating that most had never been off their reservation
by stating that they communicated orally and not in writing
by stating that they named planes and boats after animals
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which paragraph in the text best supports the answer to Part A? 1. Part B
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- 3. Multiple Choice
The author uses a word that means “doubtful” in the text. Choose the word in the paragraph that best represents that idea.
The Navajo code was proposed by a non-Navajo, Philip Johnston, the son of missionaries on the reservation. Marine officers were skeptical at first. American armies had used other Indian languages to send messages during World War I. Yet because the ancient dialects had no
words for machine gun or tank, the experiment failed. Johnston had a better idea—a language combined with a code. . . .
proposed
skeptical
dialects
experiment
- 4. Multiple Choice
How does the author support the idea that the Navajo soldiers were
able to make a code related to war even though their language lacked
words for it?
by showing how they mixed language and culture in the code
by showing that they started by encoding 400 words
by showing how they proved the Navy couldn’t break the code
by showing that they met several times to encode new terms
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which two details from the article support the answer in Part A?
“. . . the business of their daily lives was conducted in their own
language.”
“. . . Navajo was the language least likely to be known to
foreigners.”
“. . . the Navajo soldiers rooted it, like their lives, in nature.”
“Lotso, meaning ‘whale,’ was the code word for “battleship’. . . .”
“Marines spell out abbreviations with their own alphabet. . . .”
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best supports the idea that the Navajo code was
hard to crack?
“. . . the first letter of each word spelled out Mt. Suribachi.”
“The Navajo Code Talkers were unique in cryptographic history.”
“Even today, their code remains one of the few in history that
was never broken.”
“The Navajo language contained no words for the horrors
of war.”
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