What Was the Purpose of the Inca's Strange Strings?

Which of the following helps us understand that "String Theory" and "Spinning a Yarn" are Persuasive Articles?

• The text persuades a reader to be for or against an idea.

• The text tells about characters and events that resemble people in real life.

• The text is a true story about a person's life written by another person.

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What does the article "String Theory" try to convince the reader what the purpose of the Inca's strange strings was?

• The quipu was a mathematical calculator.

• The quipu was a 3-D language written in thread.

Fill in the blank:

Most quipus were not preserved, but about 600 of them still remain ________.

• era

• historian

• intact

• fragments

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True or False:

Quipus are made of cotton and wool strings, sometimes hundreds of them, attached to a thicker horizontal cord.

• True

• False

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What does the article "Spinning a Yarn" try to convince the reader what the purpose of the Inca's strange strings was?

• The quipu was a mathematical calculator.

• The quipu was a 3-D language written in thread.

Fill in the blank:

In its peak ______--the middle of the 1400s-- the Incas build thousands of miles of roads over mountains, and yet they had no knowledge of the wheel.

• intact

• historian

• remnants

• era

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True or False:

Researchers have never found identical knot patterns in the strings of different quipus.

• True

• False

What type of text feature is shown on page 224 to support the article "String Theory"?

• Graph

• Diagram

• Pie Chart

• Table

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How many miles did the Inca empire cover?

• 2,000

• 3,000

• 4,000

• 5,000

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What question do BOTH articles try to answer?

• Was the quipu an ancient mathematical calculator?

• What was the purpose of the Inca's strange strings?

• Was the quipu a 3-D language written in thread?

• How large was the Inca empire?

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