Navajo Code Talkers

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1.) What was the Second World War?

• a.) a war between the world and Native Americans

• b.) a small war between the Navajo and the U.S. government

• c.) a war where nearly 300,000 Americans became Code Talkers

• d.) the most destructive war in human history

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2.) What happened in 1924?

• a.) Native Americans could no longer be citizens of the United States.

• b.) The Second World War began.

• c.) All Native Americans became U.S. citizens.

• d.) The First World War began.

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3.) How did the 25,000 Native Americans who fought in the Second World War join the armed forces?

• a.) They were all drafted.

• b.) Some were drafted, but the majority volunteered

• c.) All of them volunteered.

• d.) Some volunteered, but the majority were drafted.

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4.) What part of Navajo culture became important for the survival of the United States in the Second World War?

• a.) Navajo language, which is very difficult for nonnatives to learn

• b.) Navajo clothing, which could protect soldiers from bombs

• c.) Navajo homes, which could easily be built in the jungles of Philippines

• d.) Navajo cooking, which all U.S. soldiers loved to eat

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5.) Why were so many people trying to both create and crack codes during the Second World War?

• a.) they could not simply say in plain language what they were planning or doing

• b.) so that they could get revenge on the U.S. government

• c.) because they were tired of using horseback messengers

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6.) What made Navajo difficult for nonnative people to understand? PICK ANSWER D

• a.) The words all sounded exactly the same.

• b.) The words were short and easily missed.

• c.) The words had no vowels, which made them tricky to hear

• d.) The words had many sounds, and many sounds were hard to hear.

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7.) Who was Joe Kieyoomia?

• a.) a Navajo Code Talker

• b.) a Navajo who spoke Navajo but didn’t know the Code Talker's code

• c.) a Navajo who became a Japanese soldier

• d.) a Japanese soldier who learned how to speak Navajo

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8.) Where was Joe Kieyoomia when the Second World War ended?

• a.) in a basement prison in a Japanese city called Nagasaki

• b.) safe at home on the Navajo reservation

• c.) in a prison in the Philippine jungle

• d.) fighting alongside fellow U.S. soldiers

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9.) Why did Joe Kieyoomia's Navajo friends not explain the code to him after the war?

• a.) because the Code Talkers forgot the code

• b.) because Kieyoomia did not want to learn the code

• c.) because they knew Kieyoomia wasn't smart enough to learn the code

• d.) because the code was still a government secret until 1969