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WorksheetsCode Talkers
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
When Ned first began boarding school, what made him feel naked and ashamed?
playing football in front of an audience
sleeping in a dormitory
wearing short pants to his class
having his hair cut
Why wasn't Ned surprised that the Navajos didn't wash out of bootcamp?
Navajos would rather die than surrender or admit defeat
Skills recruits needed to learn were part of everyday Navajo like them
Only the very toughest Navajos had joined the Marines at first
Navajos would have relied on spirit guides to help them pass bootcamp
After Georgia Boy asked him to read a letter from Ma, Ned realized that---
white people and Navajos are different in the most important ways
white people would never accept that they could learn from a Navajo
his parents had been wrong to send him to boarding school
white people are not born knowing everything
What did Ned see as a sign that he was meant to do code talking?
His teacher's name was Ned
The code book had a picture of a pouch that looked like his pollen pouch
His nickname, Wolachii or Ant, was the first alphabet word in the code
the training for code talking began on this 18th birthday
Why did code talkers say "Arizona" or "New Mexico" before sending a message?
to prevent other operators from mistaking them from Japanese
to identify which platoon should receive the message
To give operators a basic idea of how long the message would be
to warn others that they would be moving into Japanese territory
Ned and the Navajos made Stormy think they were the toughest Marines by---
using prickly pear cactus juice instead of water from the canteens
walking over the rats of pavavu without showing any signs of revulsion
shaving their beards without first putting soap on their faces
leading the banzal attacks against the japanese
The message about a "man trap" was sent to warn men that---
a Japanese suicide bomber had been spotted over Iwo Jima
the foxholes had completely filled with water
Stormy had succumbed to battle fatigue
the Japanese had booby-trapped equipment and other things
Why did Wilsie put Charlie Begay's dog tag into Charlie's mouth?
to wake up the "soundly sleeping" Charlie
to make sure the "dead" man's identification wouldn't get lost
to prove that he had been able to get close enough to kill charlie
to teach Charlie to stop talking when he was on enemy territory
In an Iwo Jima cave, What did Ned and Marines find that made them angry?
plans of biological and chemical attacks against the civilians in America
thousands of American Issued bayonets
boxes of canned goods that American donated to Japan before the war
thousands of American dog tags
After the war why did Ned's family insist he have an Enemyway?
He needed to repent for killing so many of his enemies
He needed to forgive himself for recruiting Navajos who had died in the war
He was too much like a white man and needed to become respectful again
He was wounded in mind and spirit and had to be brought back into balance
