Read the compound sentence.Dr. Burke wanted to trust her assistant with the secret formula but she was afraid her assistant was a spy.
Read the sentence a student wrote.As he listened to the haunting notes of the song the author realized he had found the inspiration for his next suspense novel.
Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Read the sentence.The squirrel who ran in circles around the circumference of the tree chattered angrily at the curious cat.
Read the excerpt about Elizabeth Van Lew from The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles.No one in Libby Prison hospital paid much attention to this tiny, birdlike woman with a thin nose and alert blue eyes as she went about her business of visiting the hospitalized soldiers. She read to them and brought them baskets of goodies. The Confederate guards had no idea that this kindhearted woman was gathering military intelligence from the prisoners and laying the groundwork for espionage activities.
Read this paragraph from The Dark Game.Another thing that changed very little in the years between the wars was the means of obtaining military intelligence. Although the use of photography and the telegraph brought some technological advances, the craft of spying on the enemy's army still relied on fieldwork. For the most part, intelligence was gathered in simple ways. Prisoners of war and deserters were interrogated. The Union army was always interested in hearing what runaway slaves had to report. And, of course, both armies relied on cavalry scouts, signal intercepts, visual observation, and captured correspondence.
How does the first paragraph of The Dark Game best support the central idea that the Civil War was a long war?
Which excerpt from Annabel Lee provides the best evidence to support the conclusion that Annabel Lee was loyal?
Which best describes the author’s viewpoint about the people who learned to decipher the Enigma in "The Enigma Machine”?
Which excerpt from "The Enigma Machine” supports the idea that Allied forces expected the Germans to complicate their coding system?
Read the excerpt from "The Enigma Machine.”Cryptologists looked for cribs, which are repeated expressions in messages. Sloppy operators would repeat phrases like "nothing to report" or "weather forecast" (Wettervorhersage), which served as clues. If there were no cribs to be found, the British would send out false information about, say, British mines planted in a given area. The Germans might then send messages with the name of that area, which would provide clues about deciphering that code.
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.
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.
Read the excerpt from "The Rosetta Stone.”Then chance stepped in. In 1798, Napoleon went to Egypt to protect its trade interests. In addition to an army, he brought along Egyptian scholars who were charged with copying the inscriptions and studying the architecture.The following year, the French bolstered their defenses by rebuilding a fort in the town of Rosetta. In the midst of the fortification, the Rosetta Stone was discovered. Ironically, this large stone tablet was found not by one of the scholars but by a soldier. Luckily, he recognized that the inscriptions must have value. Militarily, Napoleon's Egyptian campaign was a disaster—the British decimated the French navy—but historically, it was of long-lasting importance.
Which best describes the author’s viewpoint toward the actual Rosetta Stone in "The Rosetta Stone”?
If someone were to describe "The Rosetta Stone” to a friend, he or she would most likely compare it to
Read the passage from "The Quinceanera.”The next thing I knew, the alarm on my phone rang, startling me out of a daze. It was 12:30, time for me to leave! In a rush of misery I realized I had to make a choice: get my sister’s gift or make it to my movie on time. A quick look at the jewelry reminded me that there wasn’t anything here I thought she’d like anyhow. But I had to get her something! And then it hit me. My sister liked movies – I could get her movie tickets at the theatre, or a gift certificate she could use whenever she wanted!
What is one key difference between "The Quinceanera" and "The Smithville Gazette: Neighborhood Thief Strikes Again"?
Read the passage from "Racing the Storm.”Anastasia shook her head in wonder. "You’re so lucky you have your license,” she said. "I wish I had been the one driving.”
In "Racing the Storm,” which character is a foil to Keri?
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