Navajo Code Talkers: The Century’s Best-Kept Secret

Instructions

Read the information passage "Navajo Code Talkers: The Century’s Best-Kept Secret" and answer the text-dependent questions below. 

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In paragraph 1, the word __________ best helps the reader understand the meaning of the word "Clandestine."

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Who first suggested using Navajo for military radio communications?

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The author begins and ends the selection with references to successful battles in order to __________

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In paragraph 1, the author mentions “guttural noises and complex intonations” in order to __________

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From the information included in the table from the Navajo Code Talkers’ Dictionary, the reader can learn __________

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	Illustrates the public knew	Does NOT illustrate the public knew
Its application in World War II as a clandestine system of communication was one of the twentieth century’s best-kept secrets.
A hand grenade was “potato,” and plain old bombs were “eggs.”
That was the situation in 1942 when the Pentagon authorized one of the boldest gambits of the war.
It wasn’t until 1968, when the military felt convinced that the Code Talkers would not be needed for any future wars, that America learned of the incredible contribution a handful of Native Americans made to winning history’s biggest war.
Each Talker was so valuable, he traveled everywhere with a personal bodyguard.