Seeker of Knowledge

The new SCHOLARS ate dinner.
What is another word for SCHOLAR?

• students
• engineers
• assistants
• athletes

This vase is ANCIENT.
What is another word for ANCIENT?

• damaged
• crystal
• antique
• brittle

She is the SEEKER of the truth.
What is another word for SEEKER?

• person who teaches
• person who searches
• person who writes
• person who studies

Have you seen the TEMPLE?
What is another word for TEMPLE?

• court built for legal cases
• theater created for concerts
• building constructed for a God
• dome made for sporting events

We found a LINK!
What is another word for LINK?

• thing that connects
• thing that operates
• thing that drains
• thing that protects

Lena experienced a moment of TRIUMPH.
What is another word for TRIUMPH?

• loneliness
• horror
• peace
• success

Ronnie will UNCOVER the facts.
What is another word for UNCOVER?

• ignore
• show
• bury
• study

The pictures in this selection show that most of the symbols used for the hieroglyphs...

• looked like letters of the alphabet we use today
• were animals that were familiar to the Egyptians
• were never used in combination of other symbols
• looked like a series of triangles, rectangles, and circles

Why did the author point out that scholars turn Jean-Francois away?

• to show that they judged Jean-Francois by his age rather than his ability
• to explain why Jean-Francois' friends refused to work with them
• to show that Jean-Francois was not ready to learn about hieroglyphs
• to explain why Jean-Francois gave up trying to decipher the symbols

Which of the following was a main idea from the selection?

• No one was ever able to read the black stone from Rosetta, Egypt
• Jean-Francois met a scientist who had been to Egypt with Napoleon
• General Napoleon was the French leader when Jean-Francois was a boy
• Jean-Francois was determined to read the Egyptian hieroglyphs