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PART A: Which of the following describes the central claim of the text?

• Grotjan was an amazing mathematician who should have been more famous.

• By working as a cryptanalyst for the United States government, Grotjan opened up job opportunities for other women during the war.

• Grotjan’s initial discovery allowed the United States to crack additional codes and helped them in the war.

• Many people didn’t take Grotjan’s discovery seriously at first, because women were not considered skilled with numbers.

Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

• “She had been looking at symbols like these for more than a year and they still didn’t make sense.” (Paragraph 1)

• “At the time, Grotjan was one of just a few women working at the highest levels of code breaking.” (Paragraph 5)

• “To ‘listen to’ secret Japanese communications, the United States used a complex system to intercept the communications and break the codes.” (Paragraph 7)

• “Soon after Grotjan’s discovery, the SIS and U.S. Navy built a Purple cipher machine just like the decoding machines used in Japanese embassies. ” (Paragraph 11)

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Which of the following describes the author’s main purpose in the text?

• to inform readers about the important discovery made by a female cryptanalyst

• to teach readers about the process of coding and decoding messages

• to emphasize the various jobs that women could have during World War II

• to show the obstacles that Grotjan faced as a female cryptanalyst

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How do paragraphs 9-10 contribute to the development of ideas in the text?

• They emphasize how hard it was to decode a secret message.

• They show that decoding work was largely based on luck and chance

• They prove that decoding messages was mostly done by a computer

• They show how different countries had different coding styles.

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