Grade 6 | Unit 4 | Quiz | I've Got It! I've Got It!

Read the excerpt from 'I've Got It! I've Got It!' By the time he was seventeen, Champollion had learned Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Persian, and other Near Eastern languages, as well as English, German, and Italian. Soon he added Coptic to the list by studying Kircher’s grammar and vocabulary. Which is the BEST summary of this excerpt?

• Champollion studied the grammar and vocabulary of several Near Eastern languages before he was seventeen.

• Champollion learned a lot of languages, including Arabic, Coptic, English, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Persian, and Sanskrit.

• By age seventeen, Champollion had learned several Near Eastern languages, English, German, Italian, and Coptic.

• At age seventeen, Champollion realized he loved to learn languages, and he learned a lot of them, including Greek, Hebrew, English, German, and Italian.

Read the summary of a paragraph from the selection. For a long time, Champollion believed that the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone stood for things. In 1822, he came up with a theory that the hieroglyphs stood for sounds. Some people suspected he had come up with the idea after reading an encyclopedia article by Thomas Young, who had the same theory. Champollion denied it, and it is highly unlikely that someone as brilliant as Champollion would have lied about the source of his ideas. Identify a problem with this summary.

• It includes an opinion.

• It is missing a page number.

• It is missing a central idea.

• It includes a specific date.

Read the excerpt. As soon as the last letter was in place, the young Frenchman rushed out of his apartment and ran to the nearby library where his brother was working. “I’ve got it! I’ve got it!” he shouted—and fainted. What does the author MOST want readers to learn from this excerpt?

• a. Champollion lived in an apartment near a library.

• b. Champollion wanted to tell his brother before anyone else.

• c. Champollion had just done something remarkable.

• d. Champollion had worked so hard that he fainted.

Which statement best summarizes the problem that prevented scholars from deciphering the Rosetta Stone for so long?

• Scholars assumed that hieroglyphs were pictures of things rather than sounds.

• Scholars were confused about the order of rulers in ancient Egypt.

• Scholars had not yet deciphered the other languages on the stone.

• Scholars had not yet found the names on the stone in other ancient texts.

Read the excerpt. Champollion announced his discovery in a ground-breaking book about hieroglyphs published in 1824. In it he called ancient Egyptian writing a complex system that was “symbolical and phonetic in the same text, the same phrase, the same word.” Which summary of the excerpt contains an inaccurate detail?

• Champollion made his deciphering discovery in 1824 and wrote a book about it.

• Champollion announced his deciphering discovery in a new book published in 1824.

• Champollion described his deciphering discovery in a book about hieroglyphs in 1824.

Which evidence from the selection BEST shows why Champollion’s accomplishment was so noteworthy?

• Even as a child, Champollion was interested in the languages of the Middle East.

• Many scholars had tried to decipher the Rosetta Stone, but so far none had succeeded.

• Even when Champollion was teaching, he had to ask his brother for money.

• Champollion never gave up his dream, and he worked hard to make it come true.

The Greek root -auto- means “self.” Based on this information, what happened in the following sentence? While the astronauts conducted research, they decided to let the rocket fly on autopilot.

• The astronauts decided to have the rocket fly on its own.

• The astronauts decided to have the rocket come to a stop.

• The astronauts decided to slow down the rocket.

• The astronauts decided to abandon the rocket.

Read the sentence: On the first day of school, the teacher read aloud the class rules and told students that any infraction would cause a student to be in trouble. The Latin root -fract- means “to break.” A student who commits an infraction of class rules does not

• understand the rules.

• agree with the rules.

• follow the rules.

• ignore the rules.

Which sentence contains an incorrect pronoun shift?

• A colleague sent Champollion copies of inscriptions from temples and other monuments so that he could use it to decipher the Rosetta Stone.

• A colleague sent Champollion copies of inscriptions from temples and other monuments so that he could use them to decipher the Rosetta Stone.

Choose the pronoun that completes the sentence without causing a pronoun shift. Jacques-Joseph Champollion wanted to go on a trip to Egypt with a group of scholars, but _____ went on the trip without him.

• he

• it

• them

• they