PTE Academic Diagnostic
Page 5 of 5 - Final Questions
Question 9
"Discovered in 1799 by French soldiers during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, the Rosetta Stone became the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. The stele is inscribed with a single decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. Crucially, the decree appears in three distinct scripts: Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script, and Ancient Greek. Because scholars were already fluent in Ancient Greek, they were able to use it as a comparative baseline to translate the other two previously incomprehensible scripts."
Read the text and answer the multiple-choice question by selecting the correct response. Why was the Ancient Greek script on the Rosetta Stone essential to scholars?
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Question 10
"Keystone species play a critical role in maintaining the structure of an ecological community, heavily influencing the types and numbers of various other species. The sea otter, for example, is a classic keystone species in the kelp forest ecosystem. By preying on sea urchins, sea otters keep the urchin population in check. Without otters, sea urchins would rapidly overpopulate and consume the kelp forests, ultimately devastating the habitat for countless other marine creatures."
Read the text and answer the multiple-choice question by selecting the correct response. What would likely happen to the kelp forest ecosystem if sea otters were completely removed?
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