Quiz · Deciphering the Rosetta Stone

Question 1What is the main idea of this passage?

How French soldiers invaded the country of Egypt How the Rosetta Stone unlocked ancient Egyptian writing The long history of the famous British Museum How the ancient Greeks wrote their official messages

Question 2How did Champollion finally manage to understand the hieroglyphs?

He asked Egyptian scholars to translate them for him He found a second stone with much clearer signs He studied the stone inside the British Museum He compared them with the Greek text and found some signs were sounds

Question 3What can we infer about Egyptian hieroglyphs before seventeen ninety-nine?

No one alive at that time could read them They were easy for French scholars to read They were only used for very short messages They were written in the Greek language