Navajo Code Talkers

Roy Hawthorne attended school on a ___________ reservation.

• Pueblo
• Navajo
• Aztec
• Pawnee

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The code talkers were a group of Navajos who served in the United States Marine Corps during which war?

• Civil War
• World War I
• World War II
• Revolutionary War

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The code talkers invented a code that was never broken by the enemy.

• True
• Falst

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Why did the United States military use codes?

• To help put the airplanes in order.
• To help forecast the weather.
• To grade the soldiers on their success in the military.
• To make it difficult for the enemy to know their plans.

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Who came up with the idea to use the Navajo code in the war?

• Justin Timberlake
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Philip Johnston
• Woodrow Wilson

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The training course clashed with Navajo traditions because...

• the soldiers had to shave their heads.
• the soldiers had to look the instructors in the eyes.
• the soldiers had to wear military uniforms.
• all of the above.

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Why did the author include the sample of the Navajo dictionary in the selection?

• To help readers understand how the code worked.
• The author thought it was pretty.
• To help the enemies break the code.
• To show the reader how to spell Navajo.

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The code word for the United States was ne-he-mah which means ___________ in Navajo.

• eagle
• mother
• president
• land

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How did the code talkers affect the outcome of the Battle of Iwo Jima?

• They sent more than 800 coded messages.
• They were captured and the code was discovered.
• They didn't help so the U.S. lost the battle.
• They got lost and didn't make it to the battle.

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Why didn't very many people know about the work of the code talkers?

• They all died in the war.
• The code wasn't successful so the military didn't want people to know about it.
• The U.S. military wanted to keep it a secret in case they needed to use the code again.
• No one remembered using the code because it wasn't important.

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