The Human Code Machines

The Human Code Machines

5th Grade

6 Qs

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The Human Code Machines

The Human Code Machines

Assessment

Quiz

English

5th Grade

Hard

CCSS
RI.5.2, RL.5.1, RI.6.2

+9

Standards-aligned

Created by

Scott Mixon

Used 69+ times

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6 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How does the author support the idea that the Navajo men who volunteered to fight in World War II had been living isolated lives? 1. Part A

by stating that their messages were impossible to understand

by stating that most had never been off their reservation

by stating that they communicated orally and not in writing

by stating that they named planes and boats after animals

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which paragraph in the text best supports the answer to Part A? 1. Part B

Paragraph 3

Paragraph 5

Paragraph 6

Paragraph 9

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The author uses a word that means “doubtful” in the text. Choose the word in the paragraph that best represents that idea.

The Navajo code was proposed by a non-Navajo, Philip Johnston, the son of missionaries on the reservation. Marine officers were skeptical at first. American armies had used other Indian languages to send messages during World War I. Yet because the ancient dialects had no

words for machine gun or tank, the experiment failed. Johnston had a better idea—a language combined with a code. . . .

proposed

skeptical

dialects

experiment

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How does the author support the idea that the Navajo soldiers were

able to make a code related to war even though their language lacked

words for it?

by showing how they mixed language and culture in the code

by showing that they started by encoding 400 words

by showing how they proved the Navy couldn’t break the code

by showing that they met several times to encode new terms

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

5.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which two details from the article support the answer in Part A?

“. . . the business of their daily lives was conducted in their own

language.”

“. . . Navajo was the language least likely to be known to

foreigners.”

“. . . the Navajo soldiers rooted it, like their lives, in nature.”

“Lotso, meaning ‘whale,’ was the code word for “battleship’. . . .”

“Marines spell out abbreviations with their own alphabet. . . .”

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following best supports the idea that the Navajo code was

hard to crack?

“. . . the first letter of each word spelled out Mt. Suribachi.”

“The Navajo Code Talkers were unique in cryptographic history.”

“Even today, their code remains one of the few in history that

was never broken.”

“The Navajo language contained no words for the horrors

of war.”

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2