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John Brown Jr., Navajo Code Talker: Text–Dependent Test Prep Directions: In the left-hand column of the box below you will find a quote, image, and caption. In the right-hand column you will find questions about the excerpt on the left. These questions are not designed to test your factual knowledge, but rather to assess your ability to analyze, infer, determine the meaning of words and phrases, and come to conclusions using featured sources.
1. Which of the following best summarizes John “Oh, yes, I’m proud of it, particularly when I shook Brown Jr.’s feelings about his service and hands with President Bush in Washington three years contributions as a Navajo Code Talker? ago. He gave me the gold medal. He shook hands A. Anger with me and then afterwards I spoke. So I spoke in B. Pride English and then when I got through with my speech C. Sadness I spoke in Navajo, that amounted to about three D. Ambivalence minutes. I said ‘you Navajo people that are now on the reservation between the four sacred mountains, I 2. Select the best interpretation of the following think the people should thank you for using our selection from the quote by John Brown Jr.: “I think sacred language. This language was given to us by the people should thank you for using our sacred the Holy People, I don’t know how many thousand language. This language was given to us by the Holy years ago,’ I said. ‘We use it for they, to help win for People, I don’t know how many thousand years ago . the United States.’” . . We use it for they, to help win for the United - John Brown Jr., Navajo Code Talker States.” A. American Indian Code Talkers regret their service in World War II. B. American Indian Code Talkers are upset with American citizens. C. American citizens have expressed enormous gratitude for the Native American Code Talkers’ service. D. American Indian Code Talkers’ cultural strengths and practices were important to the United States’ war efforts. Code Talkers with President George W. Bush, Washington, DC, 2001. Photograph by Paul Morse, courtesy of the White House
President George W. Bush presented the Congressional Gold Medal to four of the original twenty-nine Code Talkers in Washington, DC, on July 26, 2001.
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