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Writing a Compare-and-Contrast Essay about Presentation of Ideas — Unit test Answers

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Read the excerpt from The Dark Game.As Montgomery and de Grey slowly made their way through the message, they noticed more and more oddities. For example, 97556 appeared near the end of the message; the 90000 family indicated important names that were not used very often in messages. We can imagine their shock when they realized that 97556 stood for Zimmermann. That single name fired the men with excitement as they began working on the message from the beginning.

A
The inference is supported by the fact that the men had to work very slowly to decipher the complicated message.
B
The inference is supported by the complicated codes that were used by the Germans to convey their messages across the Atlantic during the war.
C
The inference is supported by the fact that two men were involved in the deciphering of the message.
D
The inference is supported by the excitement the men feel when they discover that the message was sent by Zimmermann, the German foreign secretary.
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A
direct characterization
B
indirect characterization
C
direct development
D
indirect development
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Read the excerpt from The Code Book.A theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding Alice's private key. Alice's private key consists of p and q, and these are found by factoring the public key, N. The standard approach is to check each prime number one at a time to see if it divides into N, but we know that this takes an unreasonable amount of time.

A
The author uses a narrative style to explain encryption.
B
The author includes several historical narratives.
C
The author adds many interesting descriptive details.
D
The author writes with great scientific detail.
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Which sentences are punctuated correctly? Select 3 options.

A
The cake (that I made for my mother’s birthday) was dark chocolate.
B
The nurse, who was kind and compassionate, bandaged my thumb.
C
F. Scott Fitzgerald was a famous writer—who inspired many great films.
D
The coach with the red jacket just paid my brother a huge compliment.
E
Leonardo da Vinci—painter and sculptor—was part of the Renaissance.
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Read the excerpt from The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles.Wyke's work was always delicate and demanding, more so in the damp and confined space. Gently and carefully, Wyke scraped the dirt until he found the three cables encased in black rubber and, he believed, pressurized by nitrogen, a common practice in the 1950s to keep moisture out of cables. He knew that once he cut through the rubber sheathing on the cables, the nitrogen would escape. The resulting drop in pressure would be detected by the Soviets. The engineers solved this potential problem by building a concrete barrier with a steel door to pressurize the tap chamber and separate it from the pre-amp room. (It turned out that the cables were not pressurized.)Wyke next attached wires to the exposed cable—probably with alligator clips—and began to draw power from the cables. Once again, the work called for a deft hand. If he drew off too much power, the Soviets would be sure to notice it. As expected, Wyke did a masterful job, and the tapping began on May 11, 1955.

A
Wyke used the technology available in the 1950s to tap cable.
B
Caution and precision enabled Wyke’s cable-tapping success.
C
Without Wyke, Americans could not have completed the tunnel.
D
Wyke worked to avoid detection by the Soviets in East Berlin.
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In The Code Book, what evidence does the author primarily use to support his claim that Zimmermann was the first to make a simple encryption product?

A
facts
B
quotes
C
statistics
D
hypotheticals
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A
peaceful
B
humorous
C
anxious
D
angry
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Read the excerpt from The Code Book.The difference between ordinary and digital mail can be illustrated by imagining that Alice wants to send out invitations to her birthday party, and that Eve, who has not been invited, wants to know the time and place of the party. If Alice uses the traditional method of posting letters, then it is very difficult for Eve to intercept one of the invitations. . . .In comparison, Eve's task is made considerably easier if Alice sends her invitations by e-mail.

A
by citing statistics about both kinds of mail
B
by offering quotes from experts on the subject
C
by relating a personal experience of both kinds of mail
D
by sharing a hypothetical story as an example of the subject
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Review the information in the chart about the problems of turning stories into films.What solution best completes the chart?

Question illustration
A
Add more narrative detail.
B
Eliminate characters.
C
Add dialogue or a voice-over.
D
Change the ending.
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Which reason best supports Zimmermann’s claim in The Code Book that "cryptography is about political power”?

A
Governments use cryptography to protect classified information from being leaked to the public.
B
Politicians use cryptography to send messages to each other about new legislation.
C
Cryptography allows individuals to protect their freedom of speech in a healthy democracy.
D
For thousands of years, governments and leaders of civilizations have used various forms of cryptography.
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A
publication date
B
central idea
C
parts of speech
D
author’s background
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Central ideas are the most ideas in a text.

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Read the sentence.Digestion is divided into four parts, ingestion, digestion, absorption, and elimination.

A
add a colon after “divided”
B
add a colon after “is”
C
remove the comma after “absorption”
D
change the comma after “parts” to a colon
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Read this paragraph from The Dark Game.It may seem surprising that no Confederate sympathizers took action against Van Lew, given her strong and public views on secession and slavery. Surely there were suspicions, especially among her upper-crust neighbors, but the matter never went beyond those suspicions. Historians have suggested that the secessionists were victims of their own cultural bias, believing that no aristocratic person, and certainly not a lady, would ever consider taking part in anything as impolite as spying. A true lady managed her servants, prepared parties and gatherings, and blindly supported her husband. Such attitudes worked in Van Lew's favor, diverting suspicion from her.

A
Elizabeth Van Lew did not follow the rules society set forth for ladies of her time and social class.
B
Elizabeth Van Lew was a successful spy because society did not expect a lady to serve in that role.
C
Elizabeth Van Lew was able to disguise her spying activities because she kept her views about the war to herself.
D
Elizabeth Van Lew created for herself an untrue but believable cover story: she was a wealthy lady living in a fancy neighborhood.

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