Seeker of Knowledge

The scholars ate dinner.

• students

• engineers

• assistants

• athletes

This vase is ancient.

• damaged

• crystal

• antique

• brittle

She is the seeker of the truth.

• person who teaches

• person who searches

• person who writes

• person who studies

Have you seen the temple?

• court built for legal cases

• theater created for concerts

• building constructed for a god

• dome made for sporting events

We found a link!

• thing that connects

• thing that operates

• thing that drains

• thing that protects

Lena experienced a moment of triumph.

• loneliness

• horror

• peace

• success

Ronnie will uncover the facts.

• ignore

• show

• bury

• study

The pictures in this selection show that most of the symbols used for the hieroglyphs...

• looked like letters of the alphabet we use today.

• were animals that were familiar to the Egyptians.

• were never used in combination with other symbols.

• looked like a series of triangles, rectangles, and circles.

Why did the author point out that scholars turned Jean-François away?

• to show that they judged Jean-François by his age rather than his ability

• to explain why Jean-François' friends refused to work with them

• to show that Jean-François was not ready to learn about hieroglyphs

• to explain why Jean-François gave up trying to decipher the symbols

Which of the following was a main idea from the selection?

• No one was ever able to read the black stone from Rosetta, Egypt.

• Jean-François met a scientist who had been to Egypt with Napoleon.

• General Napoleon was the French leader when Jean-François was a boy.

• Jean-François was determined to read the Egyptian hieroglyphs.